The Rashīdī History 239.2

239.2

No one of us had ever travelled from Tibet to Badakhshan, excepting by way of Kashghar. But among those who had deserted and fled to Yarkand, was a certain man named Jahan Shah. He once related that he had heard from the people of the mountain districts of Yarkand, that from a place called Tagh Nak, there was a bye-path leading to the Pamirs of Badakhshan. I had inquired the particulars of him. By that unknown road we now advanced. "Can one travel by a road one has never seen and knows not?" Of the fifty persons who had remained with me many, from want of strength, stayed behind in Tibet.