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dwelling places—regular ‘ dwellers among the tombs.” Along 
this road, too, were numerous mulberry trees, quite leafless 
and giving a rather weird and winter-like appearance to the 
scene. About two miles from the City of Kashghar we reached 
the shrine grounds, near which were a number of hamlets ; 
there we dismounted, a whole crowd of Kashghar boys eagerly 
offering to hold our horses. 
We passed i in by a large gateway which i the entrance 
to the extensive grounds of the ‘Mazar’ or shrine, where 
numerous large trees were growing ; some fine lee (P. alba) 
being conspicuous by their height. Turning to the right we 
walked a little way, and then passed under another gateway, 
ornamented with blue glazed tiles covered with inscriptions, 
and found ourselves in a large court with two big ponds, in 
which a number of Swans were disporting themselves. These 
Swans are called Koday, and this species, I am told, is found 
in great numbers in the Lake district of Lob,—a region away 
in the desert to the east of Kashghar. The cuntidiend of the 
Mazar, a quiet, pleasant mannered Hajji, met us near the second 
gate and conducted us to the sacred mausoleam—a handsome 
oblong building, covered with glazed tiles, blue and white, 
variously decorated with designs and inscriptions in Persian 
character. The doors of this building were made of metal 
lattice-work and the space in front of the doors was paved with 
stone flags. Passing the shrine to our left we turned down an 
avenue of trees. to a Masjid, or place for prayers, made of 
painted wood ; here we went through another gate ornamented 
in a similar manner to the one already mentioned. Here I 
may mention what struck me as a curious decoration for a 
Muhammadan shrine: over all the gateway were stuck numer- 
ous horns of the Pamir wild sheep ( Ovis Polei) ; tails and horns 
of Yaks and sometimes white flags on sticks, singularly like those 
used in the Buddhist monasteries in Ladak. We now found 
ourselves in a large court in which there was another Masjid, the 
wooden pillars and roof of which were curiously carved. Past 
this, a number of carpenters were busy at work with their long 
adzes ; and at the south end of the court we saw a large new 
building of moderate height, the new Mosque, which, it is ex- 
pected, will be completed in a few days. This Mosque, which 
is being erected by the Amir, forms three sides of a square and 
is built of burnt bricks; it has a large central dome, and about 
nineteen other smaller ones, which form the roofs of the cloisters 
opening into one another, of, which the interior of the building 
is made up. 
This inspection over the Hajji invited us to a dastarkhwan 
aud gave us some information about his charge. The shrine 
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