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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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possibility, therefore, that in former times the waters of the lake
may have flowed out over where the Kara-art Pass is now.
Following down the bed of the Kara-art stream, on the
northern side of the pass, through rugged, bare mountains, we
struck the Markan-su, followed that river for one march, and
then, turning off eastward, passed along the spurs which form
the northern declivity of the buttress range of the Pamirs to
Opal. We were off the high ground now; the climate was
milder, and both in the valley of the Markan-su and along these
spurs patches of jungle were seen, and dwarf pine on the
hillsides.
At Opal we were again in the plains of Turkestan, and on
November 1 reached Kashgar, where my official duties kept
me for the winter.
We were to make Kashgar our winter quarters, and we found
a native house prepared for us on the north side of the old city.
It was pleasantly situated on some rising ground, and looked
out to the north over the cultivated and tree-covered plain
round Kashgar to the snowy peaks of the Tian-shan. From
far away on the east, round to the north, and then away again
on the east, these snowy mountains extended; and from the
roof of our house we could see that magnificent peak, the
Mustagh-ata, rising twenty-one thousand feet above the plain.
About the house was a garden, which gave us seclusion, and in
this garden I had pitched a Kirghiz yurt, which I had bought
on the Pamirs. One night up there we had found an unusually
large and very tastefully furnished yurt provided for us. It
was quite new, was twenty feet in diameter, and about four-
teen feet high in the centre, with walls six feet high all round.
But what surprised us most was to find it most elegantly
decorated. The walls were made of a very handsome screen-
work, and round the inside of the dome-like roof were dados
of fine carpeting and embroidery. I was so taken with this
tent, that I persuaded the owner to sell it to me, and carried it
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