The Archive · 1933

By Air with Marco Polo

(Continued from page 437.) the Mohammedans, in the neighbour hood of Sining, with their beards and marked' type of feature; the fiat faced Tibetans, an extraordinarily inquisitive people, clad in sheep skin robes and utterly in-Jcapable of restraining their curiousity concerning everything that the visitors did; the Salars in the valley Jof Shunhwa, n race that came from Samarkand in 1800 AD. led by a priest, who carried with him a /sample of earth and water and enjoined upon his followers the daty to continue on their way until they came to land and water similar to that which he carried, and the Huns Jat Hochow, descendants of Attila's hordes.

The return trip, to Shanghai, lay jas the outward journey had done, by rail through the provinees of Shensi, Honan and. Anhwei until Nanking was. reached, when the memory of discomforts and thrill lof the remote fastnesses of Ka was Iulled on the broad bosom of the Yangtze,

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