. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across uld touch Tang-Kissar, Kashgar, and Yarkand, in addition to othercities and towns of lesser note. It would skirt the shores of Lake Lob, and after descend-ing the valley of the Kan (Han) terminate at Hankow, on the banks of the Yang-tse-Kiang, six hundred miles above the mouth of the great river of China. 468 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSLiN EMPIRE. When you are considering Saraklis, lie continued, remember thatthere are two places of that
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across uld touch Tang-Kissar, Kashgar, and Yarkand, in addition to othercities and towns of lesser note. It would skirt the shores of Lake Lob, and after descend-ing the valley of the Kan (Han) terminate at Hankow, on the banks of the Yang-tse-Kiang, six hundred miles above the mouth of the great river of China. 468 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSLiN EMPIRE. When you are considering Saraklis, lie continued, remember thatthere are two places of that name. Old Sarakhs is a mass of ruins; onlya single building remains, and that is a tomb in which the body of Abel issaid to rest. Another tomb a few miles away is known as the tomb ofCain, and there is a tradition that the Garden of Eden was in the neigh-borhood of Sarakhs. The Russians have occupied Old Sarakhs, and willestablish a military post there of considerable importance as soon as therailway is completed. Old Sarakhs is near the Heri-Rud River, which here forms a dividingline between Persia and the Turcoman country. The Persians have built. OLD SARAKHS. a town called I^^ew Sarakhs on their side of the river, and protected it bya fort; they keep a small garrison there, and as we have no quarrel withPersia, and are not likely to have, it is quite sufficient for all purposes ofpeace. I wish you could go with me through that country and see the ef-fect of the Turcoman raiding system which was continued through gener-ations, and has only recently come to an end. Centuiies ago the valleys ofthe Murghab and Heri-Rud contained a large population, and the same wasthe case over a wide extent of country. Ride where you will, you find the traces of irrigating canals in greatnumber. In the third century this region was said to contain a thousandcities, probably an exaggeration, but indicative of the dense population itsustained, and might still sustain. In many places the valleys
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