Kashgaria: (Eastern or Chinese Turkistan;) - Historical and Geographical Sketch of the Country; Its Military Strength, Industries and Trade #251903

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.