eleven o'clock
The combination of these territories constitutes the Chinese Empire if not China proper , and we shall only reach that when we are in the neighborhood of Lan Tcheou . It would seem , therefore , as though the second part of the journey would be rather uninteresting , unless we are favored with a few startling incidents . But it seems to me that we are certainly in the possession of the elements out of which something journalistic can be made . At eleven o'clock the train left Kothan station , and it was nearly two o'clock in the afternoon when it reached Keria , having left behind the small stations of Urang , Langar , Pola and Tschiria . In 1889-90 this road was followed by Pevtsoff from Kothan to Lob-Nor at the foot of the Kuen Lun , which divides Chinese Turkestan from Tibet . The Russian traveler went by Keria , Nia , Tchertchen , as we are doing so easily , but then his caravan had to contend with much danger and difficulty -- which did not prevent his reporting ten thousand kilometres of surveys , without reckoning altitude and longitude observations of the geographical points . It is an honor for the Russian government to have thus continued the work of Prjevalsky .