156 General Notes. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL. 
present separate Mohammedan and Chinese towns can be traced. 
The travelers followed the Yurangkash to its junction with the 
Karakash, and then proceeded along the wider stream (the Kho- 
ton) to the Tarim. After visiting the towns of Shah Yar, Kuchar, 
Karashahr, and Kurla, Mr. Carey pushed on to the Lob-Nor dis- 
trict. Miserable poverty seems the main characteristic of the Mus- 
sulman Turki-speaking natives of the Lob district, against whom 
their neighbors higher up the Tarim are much prejudiced. On 
April 29, 1886, Mr. Carey started for a pass over the Altyn Tagh, 
but the guide lost his way. After being compelled to burn the 
riS of a tent for fuel, the less barren valley of Bokalik was 
reached. After wandering in the mountains, guided only by a com- 
pass and sextant, for eighty days without seeing a human being, the 
party came upon several hundred armed pilgrims, and found that 
they were between the Kuen-Lun and Khokosili ranges, just south 
of the Angirtakshia Pass, and south of the Naichi valley, the point 
aimed at. Here much difficulty was experienced in procuring food, 
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