Chinese Streets. 



tradesmen no doubt their numbers will be augmented in the 

 near future. 



The streets are wider than those of Yarkand and Kashgar, and 

 not covered in by a matting roof. Sanitary conditions are non- 

 existent, and the thoroughfares are in a lamentable condition of 

 dirt and disrepair, the mud in many of them being axle deep, 



A KULJA LADY, 



v/hich unhappy state of affairs is intensified during the rains, 

 when entire streets are often practically impassable owing to the 

 mud and slush in which teams sink deep and become bogged, 



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