sudden winds that came from nowhere
There were strong
bringing sand across the narrow roads and hiding the route from travellers
There were also strange music
and voices that called travellers' names again and again
Sometimes travellers walked away from their caravans to follow the voices
and died alone in the middle of nowhere
People now think that this strange music is made by the wind moving through the sand
After a month of travelling through the desert
the men arrived safely in Sachow
the City of Sands
now modern-day Dunhuang in China
They were three years into their journey but they still needed to travel further
The POlos then moved to the town of Kanchow and traded there for some months
But Kublai Khan news of the three travellers
and he sent his soldiers to find
and help them
The
meet
The soldiers rode for forty days to meet thePolos
and then brought them back through the north of Chaina to Shangdu, the Khan, summer palace