six o'clock in the evening
Among the other animals of the Pamirian fauna appeared wolves and foxes , and flocks of those large wild sheep with gnarled and gracefully curved horns , which are known to the natives as arkars . High in the sky flew the vultures , bearded and unbearded , and amid the clouds of white vapor we left behind us were many crows and pigeons and turtledoves and wagtails . The day passed without adventure . At six o'clock in the evening we crossed the frontier , after a run of nearly two thousand three hundred kilometres , accomplished in four days since leaving Uzun Ada . Two hundred and fifty kilometres beyond we shall be at Kachgar . Although we are now in Chinese Turkestan , it will not be till we reach that town that we shall have our first experience of Chinese administration . Dinner over about nine o'clock , we stretched ourselves on our beds , in the hope , or rather the conviction , that the night will be as calm as the preceding one .