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as the supplies of the natives had run short. In the course of a 
journey to a place called Hoiduthara in quest of barley, Mr. Carey 
and his Tartar (Daspa) were the recipients of great kindness from 
a young Lama, who, observing the exhausted condition of the pair, 
rode to the town and ten miles back to bring them food. After 37 
days the two rejoined Mr. Dalgleish with supplies. 
Hajjar, the residence of the chief of the Thaichinenr Mongols, 
was next reached. Our traveler characterizes the Mongols as timid 
and poor, and so accustomed to being cheated by Chinese that they 
cannot believe anyone will treat them fairly. Makhai, the Sai- 
thang plain, and Sachu were the next points—the last a Chinese 
town built of sun-dried bricks, mud, and timber. At Hami, a 
Belgian and two Russians were found. At this point the travellers 
turned westward, and after passing by Pichan, (the frontier post of 
Kashgaria under Yakule Bey) and Turfan, made an excursion to 
Urumtsi, the headquarters of the Chinese Government of Turkis- 
tan. They then pushed on to the previously visited town of Kurla, 
and returned to Ladakh via Kuchar, Aksu,and Yarkand. 
r. Carey has thus visited almost every important place in Chi- 
nese Turkistan except Kashgar, and he states that it is for the most 
part purely desert, the only really good strip of country being in the 
west, and composing Kashgar, Kargalik,and Yarkand. The Chi- 
nese give complete religious toleration, repress crime well, and main- 
tain a high prestige. 
THe Tarm Disrrict.—The Tarim river had, in October, 1885, 
a ope of three to five feet, and a width of about 135 yards at the 
confluence of the Yarkand and Khotan. In summer the depth and 
width, as stated by the natives, and proved by the state of the river- 
bed, are thrice the above. It is only in summer that the Khotan- 
daria flows into it. The Tarim thus seems to be navigable for 
steamers from the confluence of the Yarkand and Khotan to the 
Lob-Nor. 
The map in a recent number of the Izvestia, embodying the 
results of the fourth journey of General Przewalski (Prejevalsky) 
in Central Asia, shows that the depression of the Lob Nor must 
not be confounded with the Eastern Gobi, which latter is more ele- 
vated, and falls by a steep terrace towards the depression of the 
b-Nor. Thus the Tarim region is a depression of the high plat- 
iar of ru Asia, limited on the east as well as on the north, west, 
and south. 
THe Mounratns or Stam.—Mr. J. McCarthy, who has for seven 
years been superintendent of surveys in Spain, states that the chain 
of mountains which runs on the west in an unbroken range to Sing- 
apore, has peaks of 7,000 feet between Burmah and Siam, while one 
peak in the Malay Peninsula reaches 8,000 feet. The eastern range, 
