Perhaps he will not now be so close in his incognito.
We are under his orders, so to say.

He is the mayor of our rolling town, and a mayor owes something to those he governs.

Besides, in the event of Kinko's fraud being discovered I may as well secure the protection of this high functionary.
Our train runs at only moderate speed since we left Kachgar.

On the opposite horizon we can see the high lands of the Pamir; to the southwest rises the Bolor, the Kachgarian belt from which towers the summit of Tagharma lost among the clouds.
I do not know how to spend my time.

Major Noltitz has never visited the territories crossed by the Grand Transasiatic, and I am deprived of the pleasure of taking notes from his dictation.