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Innermost Asia : vol.1 |
| 極奥アジア : vol.1 |
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along the terminal course of the Etsin-gol finds its direct continuation in an almost straight line
across the Altai region towards Erdenitso, the site of Kara-korum, and thence towards Kiakhta,
where it meets the great Siberian trade route from Peking. The traveller following this route to
the site of Kara-korum would pass no cultivation. Thus Marco Polo's statement that no permanent
' habitation nor baiting place ' is met with en route still holds good.
Marco
Polo on
desert
northward. The description that he gives of this ' desert which extends for forty days' journey to the north '
accords so closely with modern knowledge of this vast Altai region that it may well be quoted
here as further proof of the exactness of Marco's information regarding the route that led through
' Etzina '. ' In the summer-time, indeed, you will fall in with people, but in the winter the cold
is too great. You also meet with wild beasts (for there are some small pine-woods here and there),
and with numbers of wild asses.' Taken in conjunction with the accuracy of all he tells us of the
route to ' Etzina ', these details and some others recorded of ' Caracoron ' distinctly suggest that
they had been gathered by personal observation. Considering that Messer Maffeo and Messer
Marco Polo are stated by the text which Sir Henry Yule adopted to have dwelt a whole year at
Kan-chou ' when on a mission ',⁹ it appears to me likely that Ser Marco himself, in spite of the great
distance, had found occasion and time for a visit to the old Mongol capital. Such a visit would
best explain why Marco should have singled out for special mention a locality like ' Etzina ', which
in itself could never have claimed much importance.¹⁰
Abandon-
ment of
Khara-
khoto. The question how long after Marco Polo's time occurred the abandonment of Khara-khoto,
and of the settlement for which it doubtless served as a local centre of cult and defence, is one which
the materials at present at my disposal do not permit definitely to answer. It is probable that the
much ampler materials deposited at Petrograd may furnish data making it possible to fix with
approximate accuracy the terminus ad quem for the continued occupation of the site. Meanwhile
I must be content to indicate two possible causes which deserve to be taken into account in con-
nexion with its abandonment. One is the state of insecurity to which this isolated settlement of
peace-loving Chinese cultivators must have been exposed after the downfall of the Mongol or
Yüan dynasty. When the Empire under Ming rule had established its system of rigid seclusion,
such protection from raids and invasions as the Tangut kingdom, and later on Mongol power, had
afforded to the Kan-su marches was no longer available for a colony occupying so far advanced
a position as ' Etzina '. For the same reason the route leading along the Etsin-gol north-
ward must have greatly lost in importance or been abandoned altogether, as was for centuries the
route through the Lop Desert.
Story of
destruction
of Khara-
khoto. Colonel Kozlov in the preliminary account of his journey, as translated in the Geographical
Journal, reproduces at length a story current among the Etsin-gol Torguts about the siege and
final destruction of Khara-khoto.¹¹ It bears in all respects the character of folk-lore legend, certain
features of it, such as the final sortie of the beleaguered king through a cutting in the wall, the
burying of his huge treasures in a well close by, &c., being clearly suggested by details of the ruins
which would particularly strike popular imagination.¹² As the Torguts themselves state that on
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