Across the Roof of the World. 



The local authorities are, of course, furnished with funds for the 

 maintenance of the streets in decent order and repair, but the 

 pain of parting is evidently too much for them. 



The only buildings worthy of note in Kulja are the Taranchi 

 and Tungan mosques, the former situated within the citadel, and 

 the latter without. Both are of decided Chinese design, with the 

 corners turned up as shown in the photograph, the Tungan 



GATEWAY OF A TARANCHI MOSQUE. 



mosque being surmounted with a fine minaret imparting to it 

 a handsome appearance. 



On the morning after my arrival in Kulja I called on the 

 Russian Consul-General and remained to dejeuner with him and 

 his wife. Neither of them spoke English, but the conversation, 



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