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whom the best known have been Johnson, Schlagintweit, 
Shaw, Forsyth’s expedition, Grombtchevsky, Pievtsoff, 
Dutreuil de Rhins, Littledale, though these are by no 
means all. But I do not think 1 shall be too assuming, 
if I claim that I have gathered a more copious stock 
of information about the road, and the places I passed 
through, as well as about the branch-roads which strike 
off from it. All this would require a small volume to 
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itself, so that 1 must refrain from dwelling upon it, but 
must hasten on to describe the districts in which I had 
no forerunners. I will confine myself therefore to a few 
incidents of the journey. 
On 20th December we rode through the double gates 
of Yanghi-shahr, the Chinese quarter of Yarkand, and 
shortly after that through the Altyn - darvaseh (the 
Golden Gate) of Kovneh-shahr (the Old Town), or 
the Mohammedan quarter of the same city. The two 
quarters lie within half a mile of one another, connected 
