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ACROSS THE DESERT OF LOP. 143
would allow me ; but these grew at last so dense that we
were easily able to walk upon them in those places where
they had been beaten down by the storms. Here the
natives were busy plundering the nests of the wild-ducks
and wild-geese of their eggs. I was paddled from lake
A Chapghan or Reed-pass in Lake Kara-koshun.
to lake by sinewy and confident Lop-men, who forced
their long canoes through the narrow passages which they
cut through the reeds. On one open expanse of water
we saw a solitary swan. After him went my canoe-men
as hard as they could paddle. The swan tried to escape
by diving. The canoes were hurriedly driven to the spot
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