In the afternoon, we went as far as Ali-Schach, a considerable place, with a handsome chan.

It is inhabited principally by meshcháns (mesh-chans'), or free Russian peasants, but contains also in its scanty population a few "Chuances" or aboriginal Siberian natives, who were subjugated by the Russian Cossacks in the eighteenth century, and who now speak the language of their conquerors and gain a scanty subsistence by fishing and trading in furs.

ROBBERSPERSIAN CHANS AND ENGLISH BUNGALOWSARRIVAL AT TEBRIS.