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THE COUNTRY OF THE WILD CAMEL. 121
bustle. Our market-place swarmed with horsemen and
travellers, and all sorts of visitors from the neighbourhood.
There was" a constant coming and going, and it was not
until the last visitor had departed that we put out the
big Chinese lantern, which was hung up in the middle of
the market-place. The fire, however, was kept burning
all night, during which our camp was peaceful and quiet
A Tamarisk Thicket.
except for the pacing to and fro of the night-watchmen
and the barking of the dogs.
The delightful days of rest, amounting to little more
than a week, were soon past, and it was time to be starting
again for new adventures in the desert, if we did not want
to be surprised by the excessive heat of early summer. Good-
bye then to Yanghi-kol, with its pleasant rural scenes, its
hospitable tents, its never-empty fleshpots !
The object of the journey, which I began on 5th March,
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