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20 ADVENTURES IN TIBET.
naturally had to take a great variety of things with us.
I cannot enumerate everything ; but just think of such
things as ropes, buckets, spades, axes, poles, and all the
implements and appliances we required for mending any-
thing that got broken. Tents, the men’s sleeping-carpets,
sporting rifles and the ammunition for them—all these
made up a considerable weight. Nor must I forget my
medicine-chest. Fortunately, I never wanted it myself,
but the Mussulmans always had the blindest confidence
in it, and when any of the men of the caravan died, the
rest fully believed, at the least, that every remedy had
not been tried that might have been tried to save him.
My travelling library was not very extensive ; I should
so seldom have time to read. Beyond a few scientific
works, dealing with physical geography, and some on
Buddhism, it consisted only of a few novels, two or three
of our great Swedish poets, a history of Sweden, and the
same Bible and Psalm-book which have accompanied
me in all my journeys, though they are now getting a good
deal worn.
The Chinese paper lanterns were already lighted in the
bazaars when we tramped along the wet road round the
northern town-wall of Yanghi-shahr, or New Town of
Kashgar, and shortly afterwards we encamped in a cara-
vanserai by the road-side.
A few days more sufficed to take us across the desert
that stretches between Kashgar and the Yarkand-daria.
There we made our camp on the left bank of the river,
near the little village of Lailik.
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