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stranniki  (Russian) wanderers

Tushuk Tash

Shipton's Arch, also known as Tushuk Tash (Pierced Rock in Uyghur) and (simplified Chinese: 天洞; traditional Chinese: 天洞; pinyin: Tiāndòng; Wade-Giles: Tiandong), meaning Hole in Heaven in Chinese, is a conglomerate natural arch, located to the West-northwest of Kashgar, in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

This is probably the world's tallest natural arch. Though long familiar to locals, it was visited in 1947 by English mountaineer Eric Shipton, while he was traveling between Tashkent and Kashgar - and made known to the West in his book Mountains of Tartary. The arch once figured in the Guinness Book of Records for its exceptional height, but editors of the book could not verify the location of the arch exactly, so the listing was dropped.

"the Arch is the Gateway" To an alternative universe?

Buriat pilgrims

BURIATS, a Mongolian race, who dwell in the vicinity of the Baikal Lake, for the most part in the government of Irkutsk and the Trans-Baikal Territory. They are divided into various tribes or clans, which generally take their names from the locality they frequent. These tribes are subdivided according to kinship. 

http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Buriats

http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/BUN_CAL/BURIATS.html

http://www.sacred-texts.com/asia/jss/jss12.htm

http://www.sacred-texts.com/asia/jss/jss14.htm

"the British idiot"

Cf. "So I have just mentioned it to show I have done my duty as a British tourist―a 
term that is often synonymous with British idiot".

Joseph Ashby, Tiny Travels, 1874.

http://books.google.com/books?id=fjICAAAAQAAJ&q=%22British+idiot%22&dq=%22British+idiot%22&pgis=1

HEAVE  OUT  AND  TRICE  UP―Announcement given at reveille to persons sleeping in hammocks. It  means  “Get  up  and  lash  up  your  hammocks.” This  term  now  applies  to  ships  equipped  with bunks

http://www.tpub.com/content/advancement/14325/css/14325_618.htm

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