four in the morning
Major Noltitz and I noticed that they exchanged a few words with the other Mongols . After all , there was nothing astonishing in that , for they were countrymen of theirs . We resume our seats in the train , and the engineer tries to make up for lost time . Nevertheless , the train does not arrive at Kachgar without a long delay , and it is half-past four in the morning when we enter the capital of Chinese Turkestan . * * * * * Kachgaria is Oriental Turkestan which is gradually being metamorphosed into Russian Turkestan . The writers in the _ New Review _ have said : `` Central Asia will only be a great country when the Muscovite administration have laid hands on Tibet , or when the Russians lord it at Kachgar . ''