and cultivated: wherever cultivable. The short stubbles afforded feeding for many coveys of chicore, which Dass and Abdul Karim stalked with very fair success. The valley wound about a good deal, but the route as far as Nosh Tung was- good. Having set out at daybreak, I reached this village.-about four o'clock in the afternoon, but I knew not that it_was Nosh Tung. In and about it there wis -a fair . sprinkling of apricot-trees, but the
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interesting fact was that the village did not stand at the junction of the Mariong and Yarkand Rivers. The Ming Bashi, with eyes much inflamed,. came- out with other men to meet me, and invited 'rile, to his house, but I declined to halt. They begged me not to go forward, and when I-still went. on, the Ming Bashi and another man ran on ahead for a few yards, then, suddenly turning, dropped on their knees and having brought *their
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