OVER THE ULLUG-ART PASS 679 
After that we made rapid progress down the glen on 
the western side of the Ullug - art ; the glen growing 
wider at every mile, and the snow on the mountains 
around us diminishing at the same time in quantity. At 
length, after fourteen hours in the saddle, we halted 
between two conglomerate hills, near the junction of the 
glen with the broad, deep valley of Sarik-kol. Where 
we camped there was not a blade of grass ; and we only 
got water by melting snow from a drift which lay in a 
sheltered crevice. We were now left to our own devices ; 
for as soon as the Kirghiz had got us safely across the 
dangerous places, they went back over the pass. 
A KIRGHIZ AUL, OR TENT-VILLAGE 
The next day, July i8th, we rode as far as the yeylau 
(summer camp) of Muji, consisting of sixty yurts, in- 
habited by Naiman Kirghiz. They spend the summer 
there, grazing their sheep, goats, yaks, horses, and camels. 
On the 20th we reached the aul of Chakker-aghil, with 
six yurts, and there we rested beside a little lake of 
the same name a couple of days, a period which I utilized 
in making observations. The name Chakker-aghil (the 
Shouting Tent- Village) probably owes its derivation to the 
fact, that the auls thereabouts stand so closely together 
that you can shout from the one to the other. The 
water in the little lake was the same colour as the water of 
Kara-kul, a beautiful blue-green. It was in part bordered 
