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The Pulse of Asia : vol.1 |
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Keriya River reached the Tarim as late as the sixteenth
century." About 1000 A. D., according to the legend which
I heard at both Malakalagan and Keriya, the ancient Bud-
dhists, fleeing from the Mohammedan invaders, went down
the river and so to the north, which would be quite impos-
sible to-day. At a still earlier time, there seems to have been
an important road along this route, as appears from the
small ruins of Kara-dong discovered by Hedin forty miles
above the present flood limit. Stein, who later explored
them, assigns their abandonment to the third or fourth
century of our era, the time when Rawak was abandoned.
He thinks that Kara-dong was "a fortified frontier post or
roadside 'Sarai'" guarding the road from Keriya to Kucha.
Such a road could have existed only if the Keriya River once
flowed farther than it does now. That it did so flow is
proved conclusively by the dead river jungle which Hedin
found for twenty or twenty-five miles beyond the present
terminus of floods. The greater length of the river does
not appear to have been due to less extensive use of the
water for irrigation, for from the earliest times, Pimo, or
Pein, seems to have been at least as large and prosperous
as modern Keriya.
The obvious inference is that here again we have evidence
of a change of climate.
On October 11, 1905, after four days in Keriya, I started
eastward once more, without having stopped a day longer
than I wished. My caravan, as then constituted, consisted
of five splendid camels, eight horses, and five men, not in-
cluding guides. The numbers sound large to one in the habit
of traveling in less remote lands. As a matter of fact, they
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