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0117 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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forced to conclude that the same great sand move-
ments which destroyed the towns must have resulted
in a shifting of the stream-beds which were once the
source of life.
In addition to the sites discovered by Sven Hedin
in several great journeys, others have been found
by Dr. M. A. Stein of the Indian Educational Ser-
vice. His admirable work at a number of points
around the modern city of Khotan, together with
the philological research of Prof. Hoerule, now at
Oxford, may be taken as the basis of a special body
of learning which we shall call the archæology of the
sand-buried cities of Turkestan.
It may seem strange that even in Khotan one
must be on guard against forgery in ancient manu-
scripts. Yet Dr. Stein, by close cross-questioning,
forced confession from a clever native, who for
several years, and until 1901, fed the Aksakols, and
through them the great museums in London and
St. Petersburg, with mysterious bits of yellow paper
over which the wise men vainly studied. They were
particularly puzzled, and at last made suspicious
by the fact that a number of different alphabets, all
unknown, were represented in these cabalistic writ-
ings. Now, alphabets are generally less numerous
than languages, and when Dr. Stein, fresh from his
own personal unearthings, saw that the genuine
manuscript showed no letters similar to those that
had been coming from this industrious forger, he
was able to confound him and turn him over to the
mandarin for punishment.
The true manuscripts are hard enough for the
paleographs, since they seem to contain, in separate