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THROUGH ASIA 
all transferred to the backs of their animals. This stroke 
of good luck made me forget the twelve days I had lost 
in Liang-chow-fu. I was not sorry to bid lasting fare- 
well to that sunny disobliging city, and to see its walls 
and towers vanish from sight in the distance. 
Our route to Ning-sha described a long curve through 
the desert of Ala-shan, first towards the north -ea.st, 
afterwards towards the .south-east, past the following 
places, wells, and camping-stations, bearing partly Chinese, 
partly Mongolian names. 
Jung-ja-da-ming 
• 17 
miles. 
Shang-ya-wa 
• Ui- 
Ching-fan 
■ 231 
Niu-ba-shing-na-tsa 
■ lof 
Bo-to-gai-tsa 
. 12 
Lei-tsa-kho . 
■ of 
Ma-lo-ching . 
• Oi 
Ka-to-khoa . 
. io|- 
Lo-cha-ching 
• 5 f 
Wu-geh-san . 
• 13 
Koko-moruk 
• I2-i 
Koko-burtu . 
. Ilf 
Arten-tollga 
. Ill 
Hashato 
. 18-1 
Wang-yeh-fu 
. 18 
Jo-jeh-teh- shang 
. 6 
Jo-wa 
. I2| 
Da-ching 
• 23 
Ning-.sha (the Manchu town) 
. 20i 
Ning-sha (the Chinese town) 
■ 5 
Each of the.se names indicates a stopping-place at the 
end of a days journey, and the figures which follow it 
the length of the march. We only passed through two 
town.s — Ching-fan, on the western margin of the desert, 
200 li, or 58 mile.s, from Liang-chow-fu, and Wang-yeh-fu, 
on the eastern margin of the desert. 
Our first day’s march took us for the most part due 
north, past an unending succession of villages, temples, 
and gardens ; while the Nan-.shan Mountains on the .south, 
with the scanty patches of snow on their summits, gradually 
