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0267 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
The Pulse of Asia : vol.1 / 267 ページ(白黒高解像度画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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placed face to face, so that the writing of both was con-
cealed. Next, the address was written upon the outside of
the concave sheet of the unique letter. Finally, a string
was run through a hole in the concave sheet, and brought
around through slots to a square depression such as that
of D in the convex sheet. There it was sealed with clay,
and stamped with a seal like those of the illustrations on
the cover of this volume, and was ready for the postman.

According to Stein, the area covered by the ruins of the
Niya River site, as he calls it, is eleven miles north and
south, and four and a half east and west. I found two houses
over two miles south of any seen by Stein, and a large group
surrounded by a broad area of pottery about three miles
north. This makes the length of the oasis at least sixteen
miles. The extreme dimensions of modern Niya are given
on Stein's map as eight miles by three. That is, the modern
oasis is only a third, or at most half, as large as its Buddhist
predecessor of the early part of the Christian era. In more
ancient times the cultivated area may have been still larger.
Far out in the sand, six miles beyond the most remote ruins,
I found some bits of slag from furnaces, and the two meal-
ing-stones held by the camel-man at page 257. The guide,
old Abdullah, had brought us to see some sort of brick fire-
place which he had discovered when he visited the place a
year before on a treasure hunt. He described the location
with great precision, and led us to a spot where we found
traces of his camp, but he could not find the fireplace. We
searched in all directions for two hours; and while he was
away, out of sight, I found the stones and the slag, which
convinced me that the man had not been lying. He searched