Word: turfan
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...consul at Tihwa, in China's far western Sinkiang province, when Communist armies began pressing close. With his wife, an ex-Army nurse, the embassy staff and their wives & children, he started the long trek out by truck and jeep, through the depths of the sweltering Turfan Depression, and across the 18,300-ft. Karakoram Pass, until they made safety in a Kashmir village...
Their first ten days of driving took them 1,000 miles across rough roads through the depths of the Turfan Depression, one of the world's lowest spots, and around the vast Takla-Makan desert. The clinical thermometer in Vincoe Paxton's first-aid kit rose to 108°. The brakes on one of the jeeps failed, and its steering gear broke. Then its frame collapsed...
...Turks, Tibetans, Manchus. Moslems who have long thrived on the city's far-flung trade. At Lanchow, Bactrian camels dump full caravan loads that have been hauled 1,500 miles from the Turkestan-Siberian railhead in Kazakistan. By camelback are brought dates from Turkestan, raisins and apricots from Turfan...
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