A few days ago I wrote something about Kansu aborigines, and this week I should like to add a little more about a peculiar race not native to the province, but resident here for some hundreds years, and, being locked in a smal! area by stupendous mountains, that has succeeded in preserving its individuality up to the present. Those who know Kansu will realize Lam speaking of the Salars.
Hundreds of years ago but how many hundreds none of them seer to know, a Turkish tribe in Samarkand took it into its head to migrate.
The reason given is that they stole a cow and, whatever the truth may be, it would seem to have been that a greater motive than the love of wandering must have been at work to cause them—men, women and little children with their flocks and camels—to traverse the whole weary way. It must be a distance of 150 days' constant travel—12 times as far as from Egypt to Canaan in the days
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.