Felsbilder und Inschriften am Karakorum-Highway

twelve delegates from Sazin to negotiate the settlement of a dispute, and
how they slaughtered them on arrival. A man from Sazin then took
revenge; he transferred his household to Palus, claiming that he had
changed allegiance. He was a carpenter, and continued his business
there, making chests and chairs. One day he asked for twelve men to
help him move and divide a tree trunk in the forest. He split the trunk,
and asked them to hold it open for him, but as they did so he contrived
to catch the hands of all twelve in the cleft, and chopped their heads off.
He then returned to the village, saying that the men were following in an
hour; he left quickly with his family, and managed to escape.
In the past, disputes have often arisen in the region over the division or
sharing of summer pastures in the heights between adjacent valleys. A
dispute of this kind still continues over the upper part of Sumer Tm/ZuA,
which is claimed by both Sazin and Shatial. The Sazinis claim that they
bought their E* , Everything on them from
Darel long a Ej? )87 this dispute, which is
said to have A summer, was subject to a

lawsuit. The E-

^ n.' J —

cnanged gres
bad feeling h
recent overt!
Palus, which
The movernt
only the late:;
the Sazin Vs
population. 1
1900, and th

o

og

A o

particularly interested to
[ngmg to Sazin (1880:12).
g able to raise about 400
at the population has not
[He does in fact note that
Sazin because of the then
azin, as from Kolai and
je indigenous inhabitants,
[agir appears, then, to be
mcy. The limited size of
' some kind for growing
to have developed since
0: in fact Prof. Jettmar's
distinctly fewer houses

101