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Innermost Asia : vol.1 |
| 極奥アジア : vol.1 |
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surprise to me when subsequently following that ancient route beyond Camp C. ci I encountered
a belt of exactly corresponding salt-coated Yārdangs and, as we shall see farther on, just where
conclusive antiquarian evidence allows us safely to identify them with the ' White Dragon Mounds '
of the Chinese itinerary.⁸
Wall-like
Mesas en-
countered. The Yārdangs gradually decreased in height, and as they became more and more clear of salt-
incrustation resumed their steep wind-carved slopes. It was significant that where this change
had become marked, at a point about fourteen and a half miles' marching distance, we met with
the first mollusc (Limnaea) shells and, as a further proof of fresh water having once been present,
with dead tamarisk wood on low Yārdangs. The furrows or trenches between these now showed
coarse sand at the bottom. We had already passed isolated Mesas and sighted others, at intervals,
to the left and right of our line of march. But now we were brought up by an extensive Mesa ridge
rising like a wall to over fifty feet, which forced us to make a considerable detour to the east before
we could find a passage practicable for the camels. Beyond it we again crossed ground covered
for a mile and a half with Yārdangs only ten to fifteen feet in height and were able at one point to
collect a little fuel from the top of one of them ; a badly eroded dead tamarisk-cone was also in
sight at this point. Then again a regular line of Mesas up to sixty feet in height was encountered.
A breach in their wall-like array allowed us to get the camels through without too great trouble.
But they had all been severely tried by the ground that we had met since leaving the edge of the
Sai, and regard for their tired condition and the approach of darkness obliged us to pitch camp
after having covered altogether about seventeen miles. Scanty debris of dead tamarisks allowed
us to economize fuel.
Absence of
human
vestiges. The general impression left upon my mind by the day's march was that during the period
when the easternmost portion of the Kuruk-daryā delta was still receiving some water and was
habitable for semi-nomadic herdsmen and the like, a belt of utterly barren ground, wind-eroded
and partly salt-encrusted, separated the foot of the gravel Sai from the riverine belt of vegetation.
No vestige of the presence of man had been met with anywhere on this ground. Having regard
to the position of the previously explored remains at L.E. and L.F., it was clear that the ancient
route would have to be searched for farther south.
L.F. post
sighted. On the morning of February 26th we rose in the dark and managed to get the camels loaded
and started by daybreak. A belt of Mesas sixty to eighty feet high was crossed to the south within
less than a mile from Camp C. xcix. It presented clay terraces, fantastically eroded and often
curiously suggesting ruined strongholds, watch-towers, or Stūpas (Fig. 177). The biting wind,
which on the previous day had for once been blowing from the south-west, had died away during
the night, and the atmosphere had in consequence become clearer. So, after clambering to the
top of a towering Mesa, we were soon able to recognize far away to the south the long isolated ridge
bearing the remains of L.F. I was thus assured of having steered correctly towards the eastern
extremity of the previously surveyed area. The ground that we entered beyond the belt of Mesas
was easy, furrowed by Yārdangs only four to ten feet high. But after about two miles' progress
the soil turned to hard salt-impregnated clay, with a billowy surface. This caused fresh trouble
to the camels, most of them already footsore from the previous day's march. Just before we came
upon this ground dead tamarisks were found in patches, and near one of them we picked up a
Wu-chu coin, evidence of the passage of man.
L.Q. left
unvisited. Having covered about four and a half miles from Camp xcix, we found ourselves about half-way
between the Mesa L.Q. to the west, on which Afrāz-gul's first reconnaissance had shown the
presence of some graves, and the Mesa L.I. to the east, which he had visited on February 16th
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