I can only remember the river being full of the whinnying of horses and boisterous shouting of the Kazakh men. The spray thrown up by the horses was as thick as mist over the water.

• 我只记得满河都响着马群的嘶声和哈萨克人粗犷的喊叫，马蹄溅起的水珠在天空飘成一片蒙蒙的雾。