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26. Crossing the Khaidu-gol at Qara-shahr.

Turki workmen breaking the ice on the Khaidu-gol     77

27. New Mohammedan building in Korla where the Tungan commandant had his headquarters 96

28. Alley in Korla.

Canal in the middle of a street in Bugur     97

29. Hummel treating a sick Turki woman in our yard in Korla.

The quarters in Korla where we stayed as prisoners     112
3o. The young Tungan general, Ma Chung-ying ( »Big Horse »).

Tserat, Effe Hill and Jomcha    iii

31. An alley in Korla     128

32. Flooded road in the Korla oasis.

The bridge over the Konche-darya at Korla     129

33. The flotilla gliding down the Konche-darya.

Loading the canoes, Konche-darya    140

34. Plundering an osprey's nest, Konche-darya.

Lopliq hunter in full attire, Konche-darya     141

35. The waterfall at Gurgur.

Dam-structure in the old bed of the Konche-darya at Temenpu    144

36. Sheep grazing on the bank of the Qum-darya.

The place of bifurcation at Temenpu    145

37. Konstantin with a fine pheasant, Konche-darya.

The trucks slowly toiling up a dusty slope between Ying-p'an and Yardang-bulaq     156

38. The broad waters of the Qum-darya    157

39. Erosion effects on the left bank of the Qum-darya    176

40. View from the top of a mesa across reed-beds, glimpses of the Qum-darya and mesa formations. May 15th 1934.

In the maze of the Qum-darya delta. May 15th 1934     177

41. A mesa island with a natural pillar in the northern part of Lop-nor.

The author in his canoe on Lop-nor     18o

42. Killing fish with oars in the shallow northern part of Lop-nor.

A Lopliq with one of the huge Lop-nor fishes     181

43. Approaching the defile at Arghai-bulaq in the Toqsun pass     220

44. Turki carpenter     221

45. G. A. Apresov, I. C. Yew and C. C. Kung    224

46. Turki woman    225

47. Ancient willow with hollow trunk in an oasis near Hami.

Liu Ying-ling, the civil governor of Hami, and Yolbars Khan, the commandant    236

48. Bridge at camp no. 114 just south of Anhsi.

Some of the ante-chapels with decayed porches at the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, Tun-

huang     237

49. The author in one of the temples, the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas.

Sculptures in the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas    240

50. Sand-dunes in the Ghashun-gobi, Dec. 4th 1934.

Dry sandy river bed west of »Sui-Sin-bulaq », Dec. 7th 1934     241

51. Parker C. Chen at the theodolite.

Curiously shaped mesa fragments to the east of the Lop-nor depression, Dec. loth 1934     268

52. Watch-tower and li-mark, Kansu.

Ruined Chinese pavilion at Yü-men    269

53. Snow-crowned peaks and glaciers in the Richthofen Mts., the northernmost range of the Nan-

shan     272

54. The God of the Carpenters in a Taoist temple near Suchow.

Chinese temple architecture, Wen-shu-ku, south-west of Suchow    273

55. Tso Tsung-t'ang's avenue along the Ku-lang-ho, Jan. 24th 1935.

The Ta-fo-ssu at Shan-tan    284

56. Dreary loess country in winter.

In every Kansu village ragged people crowded round the cars     285

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