The Land of the Lamas: Notes of a Journey Through China, Mongolia and TibetCentury Company, 1891 - Broj stranica: 399 |
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... shan , who had traveled with Lieutenant Younghusband through Chinese Turkestan to India a year or two previously . It was late at night when we reached Tou - tien , a large , straggling village , composed of inns and eating - houses ...
... shan , who had traveled with Lieutenant Younghusband through Chinese Turkestan to India a year or two previously . It was late at night when we reached Tou - tien , a large , straggling village , composed of inns and eating - houses ...
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... Shan - hsi , the road at first lay over a level , densely populated , and well - cultivated country , now bare in the extreme . Even the dead grass had been carefully raked up to supply fuel for the k'ang , for this , with sorghum ...
... Shan - hsi , the road at first lay over a level , densely populated , and well - cultivated country , now bare in the extreme . Even the dead grass had been carefully raked up to supply fuel for the k'ang , for this , with sorghum ...
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... Shan - hsi , til at Huo - lu Hsien , where we stopped for breakfast , the road was in a cut about thirty feet deep . Passing Huo - lu , the road entered a rough broken country of limestone formation , and crossed several ranges of low ...
... Shan - hsi , til at Huo - lu Hsien , where we stopped for breakfast , the road was in a cut about thirty feet deep . Passing Huo - lu , the road entered a rough broken country of limestone formation , and crossed several ranges of low ...
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... Shan - hsi , from which point to its western extremity it is of dirt ; the latter is faced with brick or stone throughout its whole length , and is altogether a much more imposing structure . This section of the country through which I ...
... Shan - hsi , from which point to its western extremity it is of dirt ; the latter is faced with brick or stone throughout its whole length , and is altogether a much more imposing structure . This section of the country through which I ...
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... Shan - hsi , was reached on the T'u - hsü ling ( altitude 4800 feet ) , and that night we stopped at the small village of Huang men , " the yellow gate , " a most appropriate name , for it is the gate to the yellow loess country . We ...
... Shan - hsi , was reached on the T'u - hsü ling ( altitude 4800 feet ) , and that night we stopped at the small village of Huang men , " the yellow gate , " a most appropriate name , for it is the gate to the yellow loess country . We ...
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