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0119 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
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as preserver only of the empty husks of that life
which for a season was permitted to flourish.
These fatal movements, however, were not cata-
clysmic. There is no reason to suppose that our
forgotten brethren of the destroyed oases were
smothered instantly, as were those of Pompeii or
Martinique. There was, perhaps, time to starve
through many years until, hopeless, they aban-
doned home and farm to seek some friendlier spot
where they might meanly support their diminished
numbers.
Some unconsidered trifles they left behind, to be
folded in the warm bosom of the sand while the
centuries moved on. These we now cherish as
mementos of that drama, intimate to each one of
us—the drama of human life and death.