Creeks and rills of running water spring from the melting of the snows far up the mountain, run among the grave-mounds, and are then trained into the town.

The Chinese residents thus enjoy the privilege of drinking a diluted solution of their ancestors.

Half-way to the lake, there is a huge tumulus of earth and stone over-grown with grass, in which are buried the bones of 10,000 Mohammedans who fell during the massacre.

There is no more fertile valley in the world than the valley of Tali.

It is studded with villages.