A Visit to the Military Governor. 



wherever they are required, being substantially built and main- 

 tained in good order. Compared with Aksu and Kulja the walls 

 of the city are also in a passable state of repair, and do not display 

 the same tumble-down aspect one notices so much in Southern 

 Chinese Turkistan, 



There is a fair trade in cloth goods and other manufactures of 

 a similar nature, the majority coming from Russia, there being 

 a Russian custom-house at Bakhti, on the frontier, presided over 



THE GOVERNOR OF TARBAGATAI AND HIS STAFF. 



by an official charged with the supervision of all imports intro- 

 duced. A very considerable trade is carried on in brick tea ; 

 indeed it forms one of the chief imports into Mongolia from 

 China proper. 



The day after arrival I donned my uniform and drove in a 

 tarantass, accompanied by Giyani and others, to call on the 

 Tchja, or Military Governor of Tarbagatai who resides in a 

 spacious Yamcn and has a number of well-dressed retainers. 



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