Ruins of Desert Cathay26 - Afghan escort with baggage preparing to cross Baharak Stream - Colonel Shirin-dil Khan ( of Royal Afghan Army) on extreme right. The Baharak is tributary of the Oxus in the Wakhan Corridor. Stein was delighted to receive the exceptional privlege of entering Afghan territory during this expedition but not the other two. He was efusive in praise and thanks to Colonel Shirin-dil Khan who had waited for a month near Sarhad while Stein tarried in the high mountains and who then insisted on personally supervising Stein's baggage train up to the Wakhjir pass into Sarikol, China.