Section of modern map of China showing Chinese Turkestan - Tarim basin with surounding mountain ranges and modern roads - Includes from Kashgar on west to Hami on north-east and An-his and Tun-huang on east and south-east. Note there is now a main route west of the Lop-nor between Kucha and Charchan area. But the road east from former Abdal area to Tun-huang crosses the foothills as Stein's alternate route did and does not go through the desert near the Lop-nor salt flats.