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ACROSS THE DESERT OF LOP. 145
theless in arduous work. Meanwhile, the commissariat
department had their hands more than full. In addition
to buying some 30 horses, they laid in a stock of provisions
to last for several weeks. The market-place in our little
village was transformed into a shipyard ; we had to repair
the big ferry-boat, which we were about to use again.
In place of the tent on the fore-deck we constructed a very
Poplars Growing Beside the Ilek, a Branch of the Tarim.
comfortable hut, which we covered with white felt carpets
and furnished in the usual way, except that there was
no mat on the floor, for I should now want all the air I
could get, including that which came up through the chinks
of the floor. My writing-table was shaded by an awning,
while at night the hut could be entirely closed so as to
keep out the gnats and mosquitoes. From one of the beams
of the roof was suspended by wires our best candelabra,
constructed out of a sardine-box. The Cossacks made for
themselves a similar hut on the afterdeck.
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