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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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Started again at 8.15 p.m., passing over a plain covered
with bushes and some trees. At two miles we crossed a small
river, broad and shallow, running over a pebbly bed. This
is the first stream of any size which I have crossed for nearly
two thousand miles. At ten miles further we crossed another
small river. These run down from the mountains four or five
miles to the north, emptying themselves into a lake to the
south. Twenty miles from Ush-ta-le we entered a country
thickly covered with trees, like a park, with long coarse grass
in tufts, and many small streams. The rainfall here must be
considerably more than further east. The soil is sandy and
apparently not worth cultivating, as we only passed one small
hamlet, six and a half miles from Ching-shiu-kou, where we
halted at 4.40 a.m. (distance ninety li).
This is a village situated on a stream some twenty yards
broad and one and a half foot deep. One and a half mile
from this we had crossed a stream, four feet deep, which nearly
covered the mules and flooded the bottom of the cart.
Weather fine, and cool in evening.
July 24.—Started at 7.45 a.m., immediately outside the
village passing a small fortified barrack with the eastern wall
washed away, but the gap had been filled up with fascines.
Rain began to fall as we started, and we had a wet march to
Karashar, over a moorland covered with bushes and some
trees, which looked like elm. At ten miles from Ching-shiu-kou
we crossed a bog by a causeway. The country was almost
uninhabited, though water was plentiful. It was not till within
two miles of Karashar that we passed a small hamlet. We
entered Karashar (ninety li from Ching-shiu-kou) at 2.30 p.m.,
by the eastern gate, passing out again at the southern, and
putting up at an inn close by.
The town of Karashar, like all towns hereabouts, is sur-
rounded by a mud wall, and the gateways are surmounted
by the usual pagoda-shaped towers. There is a musketry wall
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