This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...ass). Upon being surprised by the dogs, the animal fled down the valley with the speed of the wind, but kept stopping to look at us from a distance. We afterwards learned, that the men in charge of the horse-caravan, which preceded us, had seen a troop of about a score of khulans when they passed the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...ass). Upon being surprised by the dogs, the animal fled down the valley with the speed of the wind, but kept stopping to look at us from a distance. We afterwards learned, that the men in charge of the horse-caravan, which preceded us, had seen a troop of about a score of khulans when they passed the same place. Islam Bai sent a shot after them; but one of the animals was cut off from the rest of the troop, and followed on behind the caravan. The soft ground of the west side of the valley was grooved by a number of chapps or ravines. The east side was shut in by a mountain-spur of more solid consistency. This we crossed at its lower extremity by the little secondary pass of Kum-boyan (the Sand Pass), on the top of which was a cairn of stones built by the Taghliks. On the south of Kum-boyan we first passed the end of a side-glen, and then reached the upper valley of the Kara-muran, which flowed in a broad sai towards the north-west, and further down received from the east the stream that came from the Chokkalik-davan (pass). A three-legged dog, which came with the Taghliks, was unable to go further than the foot of Kum-boyan, and as we rode away from him, his melancholy howls echoed with anything but a cheerful sound against the bare rocky walls. It was quite dark when we reached the tent, which Islam Bai had pitched beneath a precipitous rock close beside the Kara-muran, now shrunk to an insignificant stream. There was not a blade of grass to give the animals; we had to feed them with maize and barley. The steep cliff was lit up by the ruddy reflection of the brightly blazing fires, the fuel being hard, namely dry yappkak plants collected during the march. All the men (except myself) had a headache and were drowsy after their long ride....
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