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WESTERN TURKESTAN has been, for all practical purposes, a closed land ever since the final subjugation of the Turkomans by Sko-beleff in 1880. Political conditions made it difficult for Europeans, and particularly for British, to travel in the province. It was reserved for the expedition organised in 1905 by an American, Mr. Pumpelly,1 to make the first scientific exploration of the region between the Pamir and the Caspian. Since then little or no exploration has been carried out.
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See Pumpelly, "Explorations in Turkestan" (Published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1905 and 1908.)
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CASSON, S. Western Turkestan . Nature 104, 335–337 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104335d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/104335d0