7i8 
THROUGH ASIA 
crossing by a large ferry, which took the whole caravan 
over in a single trip, and that without our having to unload 
the horses. We encamped in the village of Kachung, a 
place of 200 households. There, in addition to the 
ordinary cereals, rice was grown. 
The next day’s journey took us through the village 
of Yar-arik, which is supplied with water from a large 
canal, fed by the river, and thence north-eastwards to the 
village of Lengher. On our right stretched the boundless 
plains and the desert ; on our left were the outermost 
ramifications of the mountains, dimly outlined in the dust- 
laden atmosphere. It was a landscape which reminded 
me of the sea at home, as soon as you have left the outer- 
most rocks of the Skargard. 
In our last day’s march we passed through the villages 
of Kok-rabat, Kizil, Yanghi-hissar, and Yappchan, and on 
3rd October once more reached Kashgar, where I was 
welcomed by Consul-General Petrovsky with the same 
hospitable friendship as before. 
Down in the plains it was still warm and close, and the 
sudden change of temperature laid me low with a violent 
fever, from which I did not recover until the middle of 
Noveiuber. 
The losses I had sustained during that unlucky desert 
journey were now replaced. I found awaiting me from 
Fuess in Berlin a case containing a set of first-class 
aneroids, hypsometers, psychrometers, and thermometers, 
all in excellent order, thanks to the care with which they 
had been packed in Berlin, and afterwards looked after 
by the Swedish consul in Batum. Besides, three loads 
of supplies had arrived from Tashkend, embracing several 
needful things, such as clothes, tinned foods, tobacco, etc. ; 
so that I was quite as well equipped as when I first started 
my series of Central Asian explorations. 
