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0287 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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gravel, supports the thirty people of Vash Sheri. During the
months of June, July, and August, the melting snow on the
mountains — thirty or forty miles away — increases the
river's volume enormously. Hearing of the large amount
of water wasted among reed-beds, a considerable number of
people have come to Vash Sheri during the thirty years
since it was settled, but most have gone away after a year
or two. In summer, they had more than enough water for
their fields, but during the planting season of April and
May, the supply often ran short. Under the present con-
ditions of climate and irrigation, a population of thirty or
forty is all that the river can support.

Long ago, the number must have been many times as
great. Formerly, the river followed a more westerly course.
At the end of the old channel, and at the same distance as
the modern hamlet from the mountains, I traversed the ruins
of a Buddhist town covering an area two and a half miles
long by one mile wide. Here, as at Niya and elsewhere, the
ruins consist of two parts. The older village covered the
whole area. Its houses have completely disappeared; but
if it were settled as densely as the pottery indicates, or as
densely as the modern villages, its population must have
numbered five hundred or more. The later village, or the
later part of the original village, as the case may be, occu-
pied only the upper portion of the ruins. Traces, sometimes
very faint, of sixteen houses can be seen, and some must
certainly have disappeared or escaped notice. It is safe to
say that near the time of its abandonment the village must
have had a population of a hundred souls, — three times
as many as the modern hamlet, — and that earlier it must