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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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KHOTAN—DREAMS OF THE PAST—DOUBTS OF THE
PRESENT
REINFORCED by Mohammed Joo and another
helper (his pay was five dollars per month),
we fared forth from Yarkand and in nine days
reached Khotan, last of the big oases in Turkestan.
The two hundred miles intervening between these
cities, like the shorter stretch between Kashgar and
Yarkand, is chiefly desert. The big towns and the
little intermediate ones may all be said to lie on the
irregular border of the Taklamakan desert, which
the general reader may perhaps best consider as the
south-western corner of the Gobi. The streams that
fall from the Alaï and Kuen Lun ranges crawl as
best they can across the sandy wastes. The smaller
are lost. The larger conjoin to make the Tarim,
and eventually reach Lob-nor, a great inland basin.
The towns are found not far from the mountain
range, whose cold white heights may be seen to the
south, as one swelters across the hot sands. This
distant line is about sixteen thousand feet high, the
desert from which we gaze is not more than four
thousand. Some of the reaches of sand are close to
forty miles in width—i. e., from irrigated tree to
irrigated tree. In certain exposed stretches where
the wind has a habit of putting the traveller into a
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