eleven o'clock in the
morning
Today it contains eighty thousand inhabitants . I was told this by Major Noltitz , who advised me to visit the town in which he had lived several times . He could not accompany me , having several visits to pay . We were to start again at eleven o'clock in the morning . Five hours only to wait and the town some distance from the railway station ! If the one were not connected with the other by a Decauville -- a French name that sounds well in Sogdiana -- time would fail for having even a slight glimpse of Bokhara . It is agreed that the major will accompany me on the Decauville ; and when we reach our destination he will leave me to attend to his private affairs .