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CHAPTER XVIII.
A CRITICAL SITUATION.
On the 9th March a gigantic fire blazed on the tower hill,
and at the appointed time Khodai Vardi and Li Loyeh
arrived with all the camels, which were in excellent condition
after their rest, and with the three horses. I now divided
the caravan into two sections : first, I ordered Faisullah,
who had been with me the year before, to take with him
Mollah and Li Loyeh, six camels, the three horses, and
all the heavier baggage, as well as provisions for four days
(we had not any more to give them), and follow our former
route across the desert to Kum-chapghan, and there wait
for us. It was, I know, a risky thing to entrust the greater
part of the caravan to the hands of three Mussulmans ;
but Faisullah assured me that he could get through all
right, and, as an extra precaution, I gave him a thorough
lesson in the use of the compass, and showed him how
he was to follow it towards the south-west. I had greater
confidence, however, in my own good fortune, and there-
fore kept in my own hands all the drawings I had made
and the note-books I had filled during the past four months,
as well as the MSS. 1 had discovered at Lou-Ian. When
I left Temirlik, I brought away with me all the sheets
of the map I had drawn throughout the whole of the
journey, amounting to over 800 in all, that I might copy
them over again in my spare hours. It was my intention
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