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0278 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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to changes in the water supply, extend beyond the present
flood limit for over twenty miles. Dead tamarisks and
poplars extend nearly as far. It is evident that the size
of the river has decreased greatly.
Two days' journey east of Yartungaz, we came to the
hamlet of Endereh, on the Endereh River. In exploring the
surrounding country, I found that here, too, we have most
convincing evidence of a change of climate. To-day, the
entire population supported by the river amounts to about
eighty. A little land is cultivated with much difficulty be-
cause of the salt, but the main business is the herding of
sheep. To live by agriculture would be impossible. Yet in
ancient Buddhist times, a dense population dwelt along the
eastern side of the river for a distance of at least fifteen miles
north and south, and an indefinite distance east and west.
Pottery, bones, and stones brought by man abound, as I
discovered, in the northern part of this area; while forts,
houses, temples, and gardens are scattered over an area of
many square miles to the south. As the ruins are situated
two hundred and fifty miles east of Khotan, there can be
scarcely any doubt that they are identical with the Tuholo
of Hwen Tsiang, and the Mo and Han-mo of his predeces-
sor, Sung-yun. These places are located nine hundred li,
that is, from two hundred and forty to two hundred and
sixty miles, east of Khotan. Sung-yun, in 518 A. D., speaks
of the city of Mo, six miles west of which lies the city of
Han-mo. Three or four miles south of the latter, there was
in his day a large temple with about three hundred priests,
worshipers of a golden figure of Buddha eighteen feet high.
Hwen Tsiang, in 644 A. D., says that "the old kingdom of