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PLATE 1~t |
Bokenkamp and Bexell on their return to civilization. Kuei-hua, Oct. 31st 1933 |
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PLATE 1~b |
Our brand new cars passing the Marble Bridge between Pei-hai and Chung-hai in Peking |
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PLATE 2 |
Shiretu-ju, a lama temple in Kuei-hua |
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PLATE 3~t |
Heavy traffic in the Kuei-hua pass |
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PLATE 3~b |
Repacking the lorries at camp no. 2, Bagha-nor |
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PLATE 4~t |
The Dilowa Gegen, leader of the Khalkha refugees in Inner Mongolia |
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PLATE 4~b |
One of our petrol camels |
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PLATE 5 |
The Sixth Tashi or Panchen Lama |
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PLATE 6~t |
Sandy steppe with thorny tussocks between Khongkhorin-gol and Khashiatu. In the background the Barkha mountains. Nov. 17th 1933 |
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PLATE 6~b |
After the accident in Yang-chang-tze-ku. Truck 2 dismantled on the bank of the brook. Nov. 20th |
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PLATE 7~t |
Camp no. 9. The brook Unyen-usu in the foreground |
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PLATE 7~b |
Chinese wool-caravan ready to start from Unyen-usu |
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PLATE 8~t |
A Mongol couple with heavy burdens. Surmounting one of them was a baby! |
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PLATE 8~b |
Chinese camel-man. The camel is loaded with water-buckets |
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PLATE 9 |
Desert formations at Yingen-khuduk |
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PLATE 10~t |
The soft eroded desert ground around Sogho-nor was heavy going for the motor convoy |
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PLATE 10~b |
Mesa fragment on the northern shore of Sogho-nor |
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PLATE 11 |
Our camp at Baller on the Oboin-gol was guarded by mighty poplars |
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PLATE 12~t |
The prince of the Edsen-gol Torguts with heir and stalwart consort |
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PLATE 12~b |
The Mongol Chagdur and his mount after the courier-ride of 800 km |
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PLATE 13~t |
Georg Söderbom doing repair work |
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PLATE 13~b |
The canvas strips used on sandy ground in the Gobi. Bergman and Chen pulling to prevent the strips from gliding backwards. Author to the right |
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PLATE 14~t |
The temple-yurt of the Khalkha refugees on the Edsen-gol |
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PLATE 14~b |
Typical landscape in the Edsen-gol delta, poplars, tamarisks and drift-sand |
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PLATE 15~t |
The ruined castle of Dambin Lama at Kung-pao-ch'tian, Ma-tsung-shan |
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PLATE 15~b |
Mongol with daughter |
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PLATE 16~t |
Bergman making a plan of the ruined fortress at Ming-shui |
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PLATE 16~b |
The convoy encamped at the Ming-shui ruin in the Pei-shan |
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PLATE 17~t |
The war-ravaged village Huang-lu-kang, eastern Sinkiang |
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PLATE 17~b |
Our quarters in Hand. The wall of the Chinese town is seen in the background |
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PLATE 18~t |
Turki barber grappling with Georg's thin locks after the crossing of the Gobi |
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PLATE 18~b |
A horse-drawn araba on a Sinkiang highway |
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PLATE 19 |
Tombs in Altunluq-rnazar, Hami |
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PLATE 20~t |
The war-ravaged Mohammedan town, Hami |
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PLATE 20~b |
Tombs in Altunluq-mazar, Hami |
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PLATE 21~l |
Lombardy poplars lining an irrigation canal |
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PLATE 21~r |
The mosque at Altunluq-mazar, Hami |
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PLATE 22~t |
On the crest of the pass between Hami and Turf an in the T'ien-shan |
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PLATE 22~b |
Turki youngsters en route from Hami to Turf an to be enrolled in Ma Chung-ying's arm |
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PLATE 23 |
The narrow road through the Sengim Valley near Turfan |
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PLATE 24 |
Tamarisk mound and sand-dune |
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PLATE 25
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Worming our way through the blocked defile at Arghai-bulaq in the Toqsun pass |
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PLATE 26~t |
Crossing the Khaidu-gol at Oara-shahr |
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PLATE 26~b |
Turki workmen breaking the ice on the Khaidu-gol |
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fig.1. |
A Turki from Korla |
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PLATE 27 |
New Mohammedan building in Korla where the Tongan commandant had his headquarters. To the left a mosque |
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PLATE 28~t |
Alley in Korla |
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PLATE 28~b |
Canal in the middle of a street in Bugur |
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PLATE 29~t |
Hummel treating a sick Turki woman in our yard in Korla |
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PLATE 29~b |
The quarters in Korla where we stayed as prisoners. Hummel's red cross on the wall of the mess |
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PLATE 30~t |
The young Tungan general, Ma Chung-ying ( »Big Horse ») |
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PLATE 30~b |
Tserat, Effe Hill and Jomcha |
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PLATE 31 |
An alley in Korla |
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PLATE 32~t |
Flooded road in the Korla oasis |
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PLATE 32~b |
The bridge over the Konche-darya at Korla |
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Fig. 2. |
Getting the flottilla ready at Konche |
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PLATE 33~t |
The flotilla gliding down the Konche-darya. To the right the author's double-canoe, in the middle the kitchen, and to the left Chen's and Kung's vessel |
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PLATE 33~b |
Loading the canoes, Konche-darya |
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PLATE 34~l |
Plundering an osprey's nest. Konche-darya, April 1934 |
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PLATE 34~r |
Lopliq hunter in full attire. Konche-darya, April 1934 |
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Fig. 3. |
Our camp no. 56 on the Konche-darya, April 8th |
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PLATE 35~t |
The waterfall at Gurgur, April t6th 1934 |
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PLATE 35~b |
Dam-structure in the old bed of the Konche-darya at Temenpu, built to prevent the water from flowing into the new bed of the Oum-darya. Compare map Fig. 7 |
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PLATE 36~t |
Sheep grazing on the bank of the Qum-darya |
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PLATE 36~b |
Theplace of bifurcation at Temenpu. To the left the Qum-darya, to the right the dried-up bed of the Konche-darya. In the foreground
one of the dug passages. Compare map Fig. 7 |
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Fig.4. |
Khudai Qulu, the old Turki who served under me also in 1900 |
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Fig.5. |
Sadiq, the head of our boatmen during the trip down the Konche and Qum-darya |
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Fig. 6. |
The bridge at Gurgur |
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Fig. 7. |
Sketch-map of the place of bifurcation between the Konche-darya and the Qum-darya drawn by Parker C. Chen. The northern dam is the one whose destruction is mentioned in the text. The southern
one is seen in Pl. 35. The four dug passages are here marked as one opening just below the letter ≫T≫ in Temenpu. (It is evident from the plan that the work of forcing the water back into the old channel
was started at a spot that afforded the least labour, but that it was doomed to fail. An attempt to divert the river lower down, where it bends to the left, would have been more successful. F. B.) |
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Fig. 8. |
Abdurahim from Shindi, my old guide from 1900 |
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PLATE 37~t |
Konstantin with a fine pheasant, Konche-darya |
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PLATE 37~b |
The trucks slowly toiling up a dusty slope amongst mesa fragments between Ying-p'an and Yardang-bulaq |
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PLATE 38 |
The broad waters of the Qum-darya |
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Fig. 9. |
Sharply-cut and eroded sediments on the right bank, May 1st |
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Fig. 10. |
Looking downstream, May 2nd |
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Fig. 11. |
Yardangs resembling sarcophagi on the right bank, May 2nd |
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Fig. 12. |
The remains of an old house found on May 5th |
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Fig. 13. |
Mesa fragments on the right bank of the Qum-darya |
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Fig. 14. |
Yardangs with tops like tables |
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Fig. 15. |
Excavation of the second grave, that of a young woman |
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Fig. 16. |
Looking south and south-west, May 8th |
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Fig. 17. |
Mesa island south of T'u-ken |
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Fig. 18. |
Slender mesa columns, May 8th |
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Fig. 19. |
Mesa formations near camp no. 77 |
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Fig. 20. |
Scouting from the top of a mesa fragment, May 10th |
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PLATE 39 |
Erosion effects on the left bank of the Oum-darya at the meridian of Yardang-bulaq |
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PLATE 40~t |
View from the top of a mesa across reed-beds, glimpses of the Oum-darya and mesa formations. May 15th 1934 |
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PLATE 40~b |
In the maze of the Qum-darya delta. To the right a mesa. May 15th 1934 |
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Fig. 21. |
Small lakes and reeds in mesa landscape. View to the N. N. W., May 13th |
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Fig. 22. |
Mesa column on an island, May 15th |
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PLATE 41~t |
A mesa island with a natural pillar in the northern part of Lop-nor |
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PLATE 41~b |
The author in his canoe on Lop-nor |
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PLATE 42~t |
Killing fish with oars in the shallow northern part of Lop-nor |
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PLATE 42~b |
A Lopliq with one of the huge Lop-nor fishes |
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Fig. 23. |
Dragging the canoes over the shallow northern part of Lop-nor |
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Fig. 24. |
On the shore of one of the many lakes in the delta |
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Fig. 25. |
A mighty mesa column, May 28th |
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Fig. 26. |
Curious mesa pillar, May 28th |
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PLATE 43 |
Approaching the defile at Arghai-bulaq in the Toqsun pass |
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PLATE 44 |
Turki carpenter |
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PLATE 41~t |
The Soviet Consul-General in Urunichi, Mr G. A. Apresov |
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PLATE 41~bl |
Irving C. Yew |
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PLATE 41~br |
C.C. Kung |
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PLATE 46 |
Turki woman |
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PLATE 47~t |
Ancient willow with hollow trunk in an oasis near Hami |
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PLATE 47~b |
Liu Ying-ling, the civil governor of Hami, and Yolbars Khan, the commandant |
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PLATE 48~t |
Bridge at camp no. 114 just south of Anhsi, Nov. 3rd 1934 |
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PLATE 48~b |
Some of the ante-chapels with decayed porches at the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, Tun-huang |
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PLATE 49~t |
The author in one of the temples, the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas |
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PLATE 49~b |
Sculptures in the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas |
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PLATE 50~t |
Sand-dunes in the Ghashun-gobi, Dec. 4th 1934 |
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PLATE 50~b |
Dry sandy river bed west of »Sui-Sin-bulaq », Dec. 7th 1934 |
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Fig. 27. |
Mesa on the eastern edge of the Lop depression |
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Fig. 28. |
Remains of mesas on the eastern edge of the Lop depression |
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Fig. 29. |
The gate Yuan-yuan-men at Chia-yu-kuan |
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PLATE 51~t |
Parker C. Chen at the theodolite |
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PLATE 51~b |
Curiously shaped mesa fragment to the east of the Lop-nor depression, Dec. 10th 1934. Observe the man standing half way up to the right |
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PLATE 52~t |
Watch-tower and li-mark, Kansu |
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PLATE 52~b |
Ruined Chinese pavilion at Yü-men |
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PLATE 53 |
Snow-crowned peaks and glaciers in the Richthofen Mts., the northernmost range of the Nan-shan |
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PLATE 54~t |
The God of the Carpenters in a Taoist temple near Suchow |
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PLATE 54~b |
Chinese temple architecture, Wen-shu-ku, south-west of Suchow |
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Fig. 30. |
A Kansu town wall, January 3rd |
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Fig. 31. |
A ruined watch-tower 16 kin east of Kanchow |
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Fig. 32. |
A ruined watch-tower, January 10th |
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Fig. 33. |
Tower in the Great Wall, January 10th |
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Fig. 34. |
Landscape with watch-tower |
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Fig. 36. |
A watch-tower, January 12th |
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Fig. 37. |
Small mud fortress |
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PLATE 55~t |
Tso Tsung-t'ang's avenue along the Ku-lang-ho, Jan. 24th 1935 |
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PLATE 55~b |
The Ta-fo-ssu at Shan-tan. The central hall houses the colossal Buddha image |
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PLATE 56~t |
Dreary loess country in winter |
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PLATE 56~b |
In every Kansu village ragged people crowded round the cars |