Chinese Turkestan with caravan and rifle . st. Bliz-zards are said to be the rule, not the exception, inthis part of the valley. We reached Kuldja on December 24th, and onChristmas Day first heard of the Transvaal Russian postmaster told us of it, and gave usall the news he could. He spoke German, whichlanguage Morse also understood, and so we got aconsiderable amount of information ; but beingderived from the Russian Official Gazette, whichonly contains what the Government thinks properfor the people to know, it was all so one-sided thatwe ended by believing very little of it. We mana
Chinese Turkestan with caravan and rifle . st. Bliz-zards are said to be the rule, not the exception, inthis part of the valley. We reached Kuldja on December 24th, and onChristmas Day first heard of the Transvaal Russian postmaster told us of it, and gave usall the news he could. He spoke German, whichlanguage Morse also understood, and so we got aconsiderable amount of information ; but beingderived from the Russian Official Gazette, whichonly contains what the Government thinks properfor the people to know, it was all so one-sided thatwe ended by believing very little of it. We managed to hit off the severest winter knownfor years, and as the real cold, 30° to 40° below zero,was now setting in, we were glad to get a very fairhouse, built during the Russian occupation of landlord was a most exorbitant scoundrel, aRussian Sart, and began by asking five times therent which he eventually took. There is a coal-mine some fifteen miles away, and so there was nolack of fuel. Wood is scarce in the MORSE S SHIKARI
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