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successful step in the exploration of Inner Asia—the basin of Lob-nor, so long and so obstinate a terra incognita—has at length been revealed to science.

As originally contemplated, the starting-point of my expedition was the town of Kulja. Here I arrived at the end of July, 1876, with my two