The Pagoda of Pan Chao, Kashgar. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
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'Perhaps the earliest mention of Kie-sha, as was then called, was when the famous Chinese general Pan Chao in the first century of our era conquered the oasis and marched his armies almost as far as the Caspian. Accordingly we made our first expedition to the picturesque temple erected by the Ch...
The City of Kashgar. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
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General view with city wall in foreground and Tuman Chu (river) beyond. Reproduced in Ella and Percy Sykes, Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia (London: 1920), p. 68.
Throwing mud at a shrine as a cure for skin disease [Kashgar]. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
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Woman throwing mud at wall. Reproduced in Ella and Percy Sykes, Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia (London: 1920), p. 320: 'Finally, there are certain shrines famous for the cure of specific diseases. For skin disease a shrine known as the Sigm is much frequented. There mud is taken from ...