. Travels of a Consular officer in North West China; with original maps of Shensi and Kansu and illus. by photographs. MONASTERY OF SHAKOU SSU. CANTILEVER BRIDGE ON THE ROAD TO LABRANG x] FROM TAOCHOU TO LANCHOU FU 147 with the Mahomedan population of the district. At thetime of our visit there was also a Chinese General with afew hundred old-fashioned Chinese troops in the city, theMahomedan troops, of whom there are many thousands inthe neighbourhood, being quartered in the surroundingMahomedan districts. We spent a day in Ho Chou, whichI thought a delightful place, feasting and receiving ca
. Travels of a Consular officer in North West China; with original maps of Shensi and Kansu and illus. by photographs. MONASTERY OF SHAKOU SSU. CANTILEVER BRIDGE ON THE ROAD TO LABRANG x] FROM TAOCHOU TO LANCHOU FU 147 with the Mahomedan population of the district. At thetime of our visit there was also a Chinese General with afew hundred old-fashioned Chinese troops in the city, theMahomedan troops, of whom there are many thousands inthe neighbourhood, being quartered in the surroundingMahomedan districts. We spent a day in Ho Chou, whichI thought a delightful place, feasting and receiving callers. The Chinese differentiate between two kinds of Maho-medans in Kansu, the Sala, the descendants of a Turkishtribe which came from the neighbourhood of Samarcandsome five or six hundred years ago and settled on the upperYellow River round Ho Chou and Hsiinhua, and theoriginal Mahomedan population of the province, which alsocame from Turkestan, but at a much earlier period. Theformer are really Chinese Turks, while the latter are probablyso mixed with early Chinese colonists who adopted Islamas to merit the title of Mahomedan Chinese
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