Tunhwang

— AFTER THE thirty days' crossing of the great desert the Polos were at last in the real China. The first city was Tunhwang, in the province of Kansu. This was a place where the caravan roads met and to which pilgrims came from far and wide. For near here were the "Caves of a Thousand Buddhas." The multitude of idols of wood, stone and clay, covered with gilt, some small, some very large, some lying full length, some standing, made a deep impression on Marco's Christian mind.