AGRICULTURAL EXPLORER'S CARAVAN IN CHINESE TURKESTAN. 



"Our large cart, with its three mules and a strong horse 

 and over 1000 pounds of baggage in it trekking through a 

 piece of sandy and alkaline desert. Sand dunes rise here and 

 there above the intensely monotonous country and are mostly 

 covered with reeds where it is swainpy , or with tamarisk 

 bushes where it is drier." From photograph by Mr. Frank N. 

 Meyer, taken near Ure-dalik, Chinese Turkestan, February 13, 

 1911. 



This outfit was used en route from Kashgar to Aksu, 

 along the north border of the Takla-Makan desert. At Aksu 

 the load was shifted to pack-horses for crossing the danger- 

 ous Mussart pass. The man in the foreground is the Russo- 

 Turki interpreter, the other two being the driver and general 

 helper. 



