The country caravansary is built in the form of a quadrangle with the walls, in the North, of mud or clay.
In the one public room, the traveler perforce mingles with cattle drovers and muleteers, but the private apartments are fairly comfortable.
The stables are usually attached to the building, with large compounds for sheep or cattle. Some of the larger establishments boast separate quadrangle stables, while some of the smaller have none at all, the animals being hitched to troughs or racks in the centre of the quadrangle.
A Chinese restaurant.
The beds (cangues) are shaped like furnaces. The occupant, protected by a thick coverlet, reclines on the top of a stratum of chunam or asphalt, with an opening similar to the door of a furnace, in one of the perpendicular sides, by means of which a small fire is in cold weather built directly beneath the bed.
The poorer travelers sleep in the public hall.
In some cities are khans which act as depots for the goods of traveling merchants, who are boarded and lodged without charge until they have disposed of their stock, the landlord then receiving a small percentage of the sales.