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0238 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
砂に埋もれたコータンの遺跡 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000234
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186   . ON THE ROAD TO KHOTAN [CHAP. XI.

and other strange finds. But the inhabitants, when closely questioned, knew nothing of such sites and still less of such discoveries. So assured of the negative result of my inquiry I turned back to Gums. We took the track across the sand to Töwen-Bazar, one of the more northerly villages which merges imperceptibly into Guma Bazar. It was pleasant to ride in the shady village lanes, with a peep again and again into homely little fruit gardens. The profuse growth of melons and cucumbers was a characteristic feature of all. I passed several open-air paper factories, the pulp, prepared from the bark of the mulberry-tree, drying on little sieve-like screens.

I also met a. troop of fantastically clad ` Diwanas,' or

beggars, bent apparently on collecting in alms their share of the villagers' harvest. The lanes of the main Bazar through which I returned to camp looked singularly empty after the busy life witnessed on the preceding market-day.

When I left my cheerful Guma camp on the morning of the 6th of October the sky was of radiant clearness, with scarcely a trace of haze. So when I emerged from the shady lanes of the southern part of the Guma oasis on the open Dasht I was not surprised to find parts of the great snowy range distinctly visible. The tsnows I saw glittering

far away over the dark lines of the outer mountains evidently

belonged to the main range about the Karakorum Passes.

Distances seemed to shrink strangely when I thought that

behind those stupendous mountain ramparts lay. valleys

draining to the Indus. Mist and clouds hung over other

MENDICANT, OR ' DIWANA.'