National Institute of Informatics - Digital Silk Road Project
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Across Asia : vol.1 |
In the SW | RECORDS | OF THE JOURNEY In the NW |
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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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