Word: pamirs
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...arduous passes. Their ornithologist and curator, George K. Cherrie, was to proceed at once with their heavy bag back to civilization, via Russian Turkestan and the Caspian Sea, collecting as he went. They, the hunters, with a small, light-geared party would dash once more into the Pamir Mountains to the northward, whither they had started last month but turned back when they found that the special object of their arduous climb to "the rooftree of the world," the fabulous ovis poli (Marco Polo sheep), was shedding his summer coat and in no fit condition to be shot and brought...
...back in their plans because the Viceroy of India objected that a large Swedish party had already gone through Hunza Pass and had taken nearly all of the available native carriers. Permission is to be sought to use another pass through the Himalayas to Turkestan and the Pamir region...
...stag on a Pamir crag while goiter'd gazelles stand...
Thus mused a more political than scientific-minded bard on the expedition to be known as the James Simpson-Roosevelt-Field Expedition into the Pamir region of Asia. Taking the poet's points in order...
...Vale of Kashmir about May. Mr. Cherrie is to be the advance agent, preparing arrangements there before the Roosevelts arrive. In early May or June, as soon as the snow melts from the passes of the Himalayas, the party will cross and continue its explorations on the plateau of Pamir and beyond toward the Tian Shan Mountains...