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0281 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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a short way, and I never knew it. But how did the Sahib
know? Have you been here before? No? Then it's a
miracle."

The trees among the northern ruins of Tuholo are sig-
nificant. They prove, in the first place, that a long period
of uninterrupted cultivation must have elapsed in order to
allow some of them to attain a diameter of four feet. And
in the next, they furnish an important suggestion as to the
gradual manner in which the oasis was abandoned. Among
the older ruins to the north, and even in the centre, near
the stupa, the trees have entirely disappeared. This ap-
parently means that they were cut down after the farms had
been abandoned. Here, in the latest ruins, however, splen-
did trees were left standing. Probably the people of this
most southerly village, after having cut down the orchards
left by their neighbors farther down the river to the north,
were themselves obliged to move away and abandon their
own trees. The cutting down of all the trees of old Dumuka
by the people of new Dumuka is a modern parallel case.
If the present Dumuka should now be deserted, its trees
would be left as evidence of the progressive abandonment
of site after site. Among the Niya ruins, exactly as at Tu-
holo, valuable trees were left unused among the later ruins,
although all were cut off farther downstream, where the
farms appear to have been abandoned earlier. The con-
dition of the pottery in the still more ancient part of the
ruins, as we have already seen, gives similar evidence that on
the Niya and Endereh rivers, as well as on the Chira, the old
oases were abandoned little by little, beginning with the re-
moter portions where the water supply was more precarious.