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0243 Among the Celestials : vol.1
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[Figure] Page 202 A BAZAAR IN CHINESE TURKESTAN

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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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so have three weeks' supplies f
es ready there, and these suppl
included rice, ghi (clarified butte
d some sheep to drive along wi
the men should be fit and wi
er, after all, the success of t
ould depend upon them, not qu
could do was to see that every
could provide for should be le
e the start was made. Lady, w
ood strong ropes and a pickaxe
us over the ice and bad ground
preparations having been co
ft Yarkand on September 4. T
reached the thriving little town
t was market day, and all th
crowded with country pro
sell their produce, and buy a
er the week. I have not se
market days before, but they a
nation in Turkestan. Each to
ns a day in the week for it
and on that day the bazaar a
people, and it is then that t
do all their business. In sma
aar is absolutely empty all th