Lan-chou

He determined to enter Tibet from the north, and started from Peking on December 17. The choice of this route made it necessary for him to make in the first instance for Lan-chou, the capital of the province of Kan-su ; so he arranged with a cart firm to supply him with two carts, with two mules each, to take him there in thirty-four days.…

From Lan-chou, Mr. Rockhill advanced to Hsi-ning, the residence of the Chinese Imperial Controller-general of the Koko-nor, an official known to the Tibetans and Mongols as the Amban.