"But this time," said the major, "it was not the Russians who built the new one." "New or old," I added, "I am afraid is like the others we have seen, a wall of earth, a few dozen gateways cut in the wall, no monuments or buildings of note, and the eternal bazaars of the East." I was not mistaken, and it did not take four hours to visit both Yarkands, the newer of which is called Yanji-Shahr.