Raskam

Proper noun

Raskam

1. A river in China, the upper part of Yarkand.
   • Where was the band heading? Not for India—probably for Yarkand; possibly for some place still farther east. It was therefore necessary for Captain Blacker to turn south-east up the Raskam River, and plunge into the wild tangle of the Karakoram mountains.1923, John Buchan, “On the Roof of the World”, in A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys, Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 297
   • Similarly, on the upper valleys of the Raskam river, a major tributary of the Yarkand river in Sinkiang, the Mir possessed certain rights of cultivation which he valued as this was the only direction in which he could expand his territory to accommodate any population increase: to the south he was...1964, Alastair Lamb, “Hunza, the Pamirs, and Aksai Chin in 1912”, in The China-India Border, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 98