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Innermost Asia : vol.1 |
| 極奥アジア : vol.1 |
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and to point out its bearing upon the question what broke the continuity of the ancient hill range
that once probably extended across the Taklamakān from the vicinity of Marāl-bāshi to the
Mazār-tāgh on the Khotan river.
March to
Lāl-kan. Some two miles beyond the gap we came, to my surprise, upon a large patch of living vegeta-
tion including reeds and tamarisk scrub, for which it seemed difficult to account. Stranger still
appeared a broad belt of dead Toghrak forest, through which we made our way in darkness under
Barat's guidance towards a point of the Lāl-tāgh where he remembered an old mining pit and two
rock cisterns near by. We struck the point correctly after a total march of some 28 miles—but
the ' Kaks ' were found no longer to hold water. It was as well, therefore, that I had not carried
out my original intention of making for Lāl-tāgh direct from our Camp XVI on ' the old route '.
The now abandoned pit known as Lāl-kan was said to have been worked at one time for semi-
precious stones, and from it the low hill chain of the Lāl-tāgh derives its name.
Old river-
bed at foot
of Lāl-tāgh. The range, which we followed next morning along its foot towards the south-east, was cut
by erosion into fantastic forms and, like most of these island-like hills near Marāl-bāshi, proved
to be composed mainly of feldspar-carrying sandstone, stratified almost horizontally. At first
only dead tamarisk-cones were to be seen on our right. But after rounding a little promontory
of strikingly bold cliffs, four and a half miles from camp, there appeared lines of large dead
Toghraks, and amongst them, a mile or so beyond, an unmistakable ancient river-bed skirting the
foot of the Lāl-tāgh. It seemed to come from the south, and could manifestly originate only from
some ancient branch of the Kāshgar river. This at the present day dies away in the marshes
to the south and south-east of the hill islands of Tumshuk (Map 8. B. 1). The belt of Toghraks,
among which I noticed one big old tree still green at its head, continued to skirt the foot of the
Lāl-tāgh to near its end, and after covering a total distance of seven and a half miles from Lāl-
kan we reached the ruined site that we were seeking, in a picturesque little combe opening from the
south-east.
Ruined
shrines of
Lāl-tāgh
site. The remains of the site, as I had been led to expect by the fragments of stucco relievos brought
from it and received in 1908 through Ayūb Mīrāb,⁵ soon proved to be those of a Buddhist sanctuary.
As shown by the rough plan (Pl. 3) and Fig. 80, they comprise in the centre a shrine (iii),
completely destroyed, covering a rectangular area, approximately 76 by 50 feet, and raised on
a solid brickwork platform about 12 feet high ; on the slope close above it the foundations of
a smaller structure measuring about 48 by 26 feet (ii) ; and adjoining the north-east side of the
former a solid masonry tower (i) measuring at its foot about 36 by 20 feet. Fragments of stucco
relievos, mostly small and all completely calcined, which a superficial cleaning brought to light
both on the top of the platform that once carried shrine iii and below its south-west side,
clearly belonged to the images and decoration of a Buddhist sanctuary, dating approximately
from the T'ang period.⁶ Among them I specially noted a piece from the drapery of a colossal
image and the well-preserved head of an elephant, which probably formed part of a relievo frieze
of the type represented at the temples of the ' Ming-oi ' site near Shōrchuk, Kara-shāhr.⁷ From
the appearance of the exposed masonry and from what the plentiful burrowings of local ' treasure-
seekers ' had disclosed of the debris, it was certain that the shrines in the centre had been destroyed
by fire. Of a smaller structure to the east of the central pile and of two other little cellas nearer
to it on the north and south, also burnt, only the bare outlines could be traced. On a low terrace
about 30 yards to the south of shrine iii there survive the walls of an oblong building (v),
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