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INDEX

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Ma-ti-ssû, cave temples at, 244 Matraun, village, 322

Maya, Queen, represented in paintings, 220, 22I

Mazar-tagh hill, ruined fort on, i i4 Measures, wooden, 138; bootmaker's foot-rule of the Han period, 181

Medicine, the Buddha of, 234, 235

Medicine case, ancient, 182

Mesas, or clay terraces, 151, 158, 16o Mestchersky, Prince, 287, 288

Metal objects found in the Lop desert, 135, 149, 159, 161; at Idikut-shahri, 262

Military enlistment by Chinese of non-Chinese, 18o

Ming, Emperor of China, 25

Ming dynasty, 35

Ming-oi, Buddhist shrine at, 278

Ming-shui, 251, 252

Miran, excavations and discoveries at, 109; ruins of a Buddhist temple, 112; a ruined fort, 113; Tibetan documents on wood and paper, 113, I I 5; defensive armour of lacquered scales of leather, 114; `Castle of Little Nob', 115; Buddhist shrines, 117, 123; Stupas, 118, 123; painted' dado of winged angels, 118; silk streamers, inscribed with Kharoshthi, I i g; date of its abandonment, 119; remarkable frescoed plaster,

119-12 Mirrors, of bronze, 138, 152; decorated,

262

Mithra, Persian god, 124

Moji valley, 289-291

Money-lenders, monks as, 68

Mongolia, 192, 246, 248, 254

Mongols, of Tien-shan, 13, 253; their rise under Chingiz Khan, 34; the Mongol conquest in the thirteenth century, 259

Mouse-trap found on Niya site, 82, 99 Muhammad Yakub, surveyor, 280 Muk-su, river, 295-297

Mulla, guide, 130, 167

Murad of Badakhshan, Sultan, 312 Mural painting, see Paintings

Murghab, river, 296, 298.30o

Murtuk, 263; ancient burial-ground near, 265

Muz-art, glacier mass, 284

Muz-tagh-ata, 48, 289, 296-298, 325, 326 Myriad Buddhas, Valley of, see Valley of the Ten-thousand Buddhas

Na-fu-po, or Lop, 115 Nagar, 38

Namadgut, village, 312

Nan-hu, oasis, 174

Nan-kou-chêng, temples at, 244

Nan-shan (the `Southern Mountains'), 2, 8, 16, 17, 166, 191, 246; Chinese conquest of the northern slopes, 17-19; Chinese establish military colonies, and construct a defensive wall, 21, I 77; Tibetan mastery over tracts at the foot of, 33; explorations in, 238-245

Neolithic arrowheads, 149

Nepalese banners and drawings, 218 Nestorian Christianity, 33

New Dominion, or Chinese Turkistan,

36, 265

Nirvana, 232

Nissa valley, glaciers of, 51, 52

Niya, river, 97, 98, I o6

Niya site, 27-30, 71; Kharoshthi inscribed wood tablets found, 28, 72, 75-82, 85-94, 98-104; archaeological remains, 74, 79, 82-85; Kharoshthi documents on leather, 86; date of its abandonment, 88, 94; clay seal-impressions, 89, 104; the site revisited, 96; further archaeological discoveries, g8-1 o6; tablets inscribed with Chinese characters found, i oo

Nob, or Lop, 115

Northern Mountains, see Pei-shan

Nut, Russian post, 312, 313

Oirats, or Dzungars, Mongolian tribes, 35

Old Wall, of ancient Chinese Limes, near Tun-huang, 21, 168-192, 240; the watch-towers, 167-170, 175, 179, 181, 276; length of the wall, 172; date of building and occupation, 172, 178; relics found, 179-182, 185-189; its main purpose explained, 177; a well-defined track made by the tramping of the patrols, 186; ruined square fort, 188; the site of the Jade Gate, 189; building used as a supply magazine for the troops, 190; tracking the line from the Pei-shan to Mao-mei, 247

O-po, pass of, 244

Orchard, ancient fenced, 143

Osh, 293

Otrughul glacier, 52

Oxus, river, I, 3, 5, 6, 39, 42-46, 64, 295, 296, 3oo; by the uppermost Oxus, 303-329; Arab conquest in the Oxus basin, 32; Yüeh-chih establish a new kingdom on, 18; its true source, 46; Russian posts along, 290; ancient trade route down, 292-294; Chinese expedition (A.D. 747) to oust the Tibetans from, 303

Ozbeg villages of Hissar, 329