underground in vaults, which have cavities going from one to

another. If the Tartars had their Cham Chi-Thaungu for a whole

village or country, these had idols in every hut and every cave.

This country, I reckon, was, from the desert I spoke of last, at

least four hundred miles, half of it being another desert, which

took us up twelve days' severe travelling, without house or tree;

and we were obliged again to carry our own provisions, as well

water as bread. After we were out of this desert and had travelled