"The Keiaz
tribe live in caves on the highest peaks, subsist by hunting, keep no
flocks, said to be anthropophagous, but have handsome women; eat their
flesh raw." (P. 295; Pelerins Boud. III. 316, 421, etc.; Ladak, 34,
45, 47; Mag. Asiatique, I. 92, 96-97; Not. et Ext. II. 475, XIV. 492;
J. A. S. B. XXXI. 279; Mr. R. Shaw in Geog. Proceedings, XVI. 246,
400; Notes regarding Bolor, etc., J. R. G. S. XLII. 473.)
As this sheet goes finally to press we hear of the exploration of Pamir by
officers of Mr. Forsyth's Mission. [I have made use of the information
collected by them. - H. C.]
[1] "Yet this barren and inaccessible upland, with its scanty handful of
wild people, finds a place in Eastern history and geography from an
early period, and has now become the subject of serious correspondence
between two great European Governments, and its name, for a few weeks
at least, a household word in London. Indeed, this is a striking
accident of the course of modern history. We see the Slav and the
Englishman - representatives of two great branches of the Aryan race,
but divided by such vast intervals of space and time from the original
common starting-point of their migration - thus brought back to the lap
of Pamir to which so many quivering lines point as the centre of their
earliest seats, there by common consent to lay down limits to mutual
encroachment." (Quarterly Review, April, 1873, p. 548.)
[2] Ibn Haukal reckons Wakhan as an Indian country.
