Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia, primarily Kyrgyzstan.
1 The Kirghizes walked on foot and urged the animals up towards the giddy heights.
2 Then the Kirghizes thought of a grand way of getting over the treacherous snow.
3 Not many days had passed before I was on friendly terms with all the Kirghizes .
4 The black tents of the Kirghizes stand scattered about like spots on a panther's skin.
5 We have several Kirghizes with us to give assistance.
6 Here dwell the Kalmucks and Kirghizes , descendants of the Tartars whose yoke once pressed heavily upon Russia.
7 Among them might be noticed the chief of the Kirghizes who lived on the eastern side of Mus-tagh-ata.
8 All my servants except Islam Bay were Kirghizes , and they followed me willingly wherever I chose to travel.
9 The ten yaks stood tethered in the snow outside, and the Kirghizes curled themselves up in their skin coats like hedgehogs.
10 When the sun was at its height I was escorted to the arena by forty-two Kirghizes , who rode beside and behind me.
11 The chief himself was tall, with a thin black beard, scanty moustaches, small oblique eyes and high cheek bones, like most Kirghizes .
12 The Kirghizes who should have furnished us with a tent had been delayed on a pass by an avalanche of snow which overwhelmed forty sheep.
13 Accompanied by specially selected Kirghizes , I tried four times to climb to the top of the "Father of Ice-Mountains," but always without success.
14 Through the gently sloping passes which the Kirghizes call "bels," viaducts, bridges, embankments, cuttings, tunnels had to be made to carry the line.
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