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0194 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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country we had been passing through. It was
very beautiful. The plain, some six miles in
length from east to west, and three or four from
north to south, was covered over with trees,
beneath the shade of which nestled the little
Turki hamlets. About a mile to the south of
Pi-chan was a remarkable range of sandhills
like that I saw in the Gobi, and certainly two
or three hundred feet in height.

The afternoon was terribly hot on the
gravelly desert, and, after passing over it for
sixteen miles, we were glad enough to come
upon another oasis, and halt at a pretty village
built on the steep bank of a little stream.
There was a bustling landlord at the inn, who
came out to meet us, and attended to us more
in the Manchurian innkeeper style than in the
usual listless way they have here. But how
different these mud-hovels here called inns
were to the well-built hostelries of Man-
churia! In the one country timber was
abundant, in the other, precious and difficult
to obtain, and so nowhere in Chinese Turke-
stan did I see the well-built inns and farm-
houses so characteristic of Manchuria.

We reached Turfan on July 17. As I