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0421 Across Asia : vol.1
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In the SW

RECORDS

OF THE JOURNEY

In the NW

 

 

Tingfan    

25

500 Titâ    

72

I,000

Tung Ting fan    

22

400 Sin Titâ   

52

800

Suchow

5o

1,200 Sin Pingliang    

1g

25o

Shang Suchow    

20

470 Tchengyen   

1g

300

Tung   »

26

52o Lintai

16

15o

Sin

12

2 to Tung Lintai    

25

800

Gaotai    

72

1,000 Lunte    

32

1,000

Tchung Gaotai    

19

400 Hui ting    

25

500

Sin   »

22

500 Tung huining    

1g

500

Jungtchang    

27

52o Huids j â    

25

700

Tchangje    

33

700 Liang tang    

25

400

Si Khödsjâ    

20

400 Tung antin    

15

150

Shang tchenfan

22

400 Singantin    

27

57o

Tchen fan    

5

156 Tsungsin    

19

18o

Nienpei

22

25o Sitindsju    

17

300

Khödsjâ    

13

170 Tungdsjindsju   ....

24

500

Not more than 5 adults can be reckoned per household for the rural population of Tun-huang -{- 4,188 inhabitants of the town. In the fortress there are 508 families numbering 1,844 individuals and in the outer town 47o families totalling 2,340 people. Only a few Sarts from Khotan, Lop Nor, Turfan and Hami are engaged in business here, otherwise the population is entirely Chinese.

The order of the Bogdykhan that the growing of opium is to be restricted and in the future to be done away with altogether — one of the principal sources of income for the population — is proclaimed by posters nailed on the walls of the houses. No restriction has been made yet, but the population has itself reduced the sowings slightly. I asked if they did not think the order unjust, but the only reply was that, if the Emperor wished it, it had to be. — In addition to keeping domestic animals, some Chinese carry on business in camel caravans. The number can scarcely be as much as a thousand (?).

We left Tun-huang early on the morning of the 18th. During my stay there the weather had become considerably worse and the first cold snap was felt. On the 16tH, in particular, the weather was bad. There was an east wind with several degrees of frost, raising clouds of sand and dust. I had intended to visit a miao called »Tchen fu tun», lying in a gorge in the mountains to the S, and to proceed thence obliquely across the gravel plain to Kotadinza station. The pheasants and dsjerans were too tempting, however. I could not resist the temptation of shooting both and bagged a brace of pheasants and 2 dsjerans, unfortunately both hens. There are a great many of both. The pheasants are of a special kind and often appear in groups of about a dozen. The dsjerans are very common in those parts of the desert that border on the tilled fields of Ansi and Tun-huang. They are usually seen in flocks of 6-7. When a shot has been fired, they usually stop after a few bounds

November loth. Ansi.

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