Kashgaria: (Eastern or Chinese Turkistan;)

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Thanks to the successful choice of official personages, the settled population was quickly pacified; so that from April 1876, throughout the valley of Fergana, in which is collected the greater portion of this population, one could go everywhere alone, without a guard and without arms. It was somewhat more difficult to subdue the nomad people of the Khanate, who wander over the majestic mountains of the Tian Shan range bordering on the Fergana valley. Having been for a long time almost independent of the administration of the last weak Khans, the kara-kirghiz and a portion of the Kipchaks were at first but little disposed to recognize Russian rule.