Day #12: Where the Yellow River Brings the Desert to Life

The Desert: Over the course of several months, the Jesuits crossed an area of the Gobi Desert (which Kircher refers to as the Kalmak Desert). Kircher describes the Desert; “…They carried on across the Kalmak Desert of Tartary… the Desert is partly mountainous and partly flat covered with sand and gravel and entirely bare and infertile…” The…