AGRICULTURAL EXPLORER'S CARAVAN IN CHINESE TURKESTAN. 
"Our large cart, with its three mules and a strong horse 
and over 1000 pounds of baggage in it trekking through a 
piece of sandy and alkaline desert. Sand dunes rise here and 
there above the intensely monotonous country and are mostly 
covered with reeds where it is swampy, or with tamarisk 
bushes where it is drier." From photograph by Mr. Frank N. 
Meyer, taken near Ure-dalik, Chinese Turkestan, February 13, 
1911. 
This outfit was used en route from Kashgar to Aksu, 
along the north border of the Takla-Makan desert. At Aksu 
the load was shifted to pack-horses for crossing the danger- 
ous Mussart pass. The .man in the foreground is the Russo- 
Turki interpreter, the 6 ( jbher two being the driver and general 
helper. 
