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0270 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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longer than the camel-man and I, and finally had to be re-
called. He did not know what I had found, and supposed
that our quest had been in vain. As he had already told
Ibrahim what a liar he was, he supposed that I would think
that he had been lying again. He came back in a sad fright,
apparently expecting an immediate beating. I gave him
a little coin instead. A look of amazement and incredulity
went over his face, and then, as he realized that I meant it,
he fell on his knees, stroked his beard with a long invocation
to Allah, and wanted to kiss my feet.

The stones and slag which we found apparently belong
to a time more ancient than the ruined houses. Possibly
they are of the same date as the thickly strewn pottery of an
area over two miles long lying around the most remote
houses, but the appearance of the tamarisk mounds in the
vicinity indicates that they are older than the houses them-
selves. The pottery, with the accompanying slag and bones,
is in a much finer state of comminution than is common
among the main ruins. It is possible that it represents
a town more ancient than the Niya of the Kharosthi docu-
ments, or at least the part of a single town which was aban-
doned at a very early date, just as Rawak was abandoned
before Dandan-Uilik.

The condition of the vegetation agrees closely with that
of the ruins. To the end of the present flood channel it is
vigorous; a little farther out in the desert among the upper
ruins, the great majority of the poplars are dead, but retain
their branches, and the half-dead tamarisks form mounds
ten or twenty feet high; among the main ruins the poplars
have been reduced to mere trunks with few or no branches,