On January 8, 1914, I arrived at Charkhlik (map, Fig. 1) together with three of my Indian assistants.

Ibrahim Kurban, from Terim township in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture’s Yopurgha (Yuepuhu) county, disappeared in May 2016 while awaiting a flight from the XUAR capital Urumqi that would eventually bring him to Turkey, a friend told RFA’s Uyghur Service on condition of anonymity.

[…] we may by these means, with some little inconvenience, avoid the pain and arrive at a vegete old age.

It was forty degrees below.