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The Pulse of Asia : vol.1 |
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fresher than now, the location of the road becomes highly
reasonable.
Two short days' journey northward from Tikkenlik
brought us to Ying-pen, the ruins of a little fort and village
discovered by Hedin on the ancient trade route west of
Lulan. The population was evidently very small, perhaps
ten or twenty families. Hedin thought that the water sup-
ply came from the Dry River, not far to the south. As the
ruins lie sixty feet above the river on the fan at the mouth
of the Bujentu valley, the supposition is not tenable. It
would require a canal ten or twenty miles long, of which
there is no trace; and such a canal would be out of all pro-
portion to the size of the village. The only other alternative
is that the water should have come from the Bujentu valley,
which leads southward from the Kuruk Tagh or Dry Moun-
tains. Accordingly, I went up the valley, and found a canal,
which I followed for two miles to its head. It was simply
a ditch dug in gravel, and protected on either side by a row
of tamarisks, long since dead. I also found a reservoir with
walls of gravel in which the water was stored near two of
the shrines called "stupas." Like all the other ancient irri-
gation systems which I saw, that of Ying-pen differed not a
whit from those of to-day. At present, the place is uninhab-
ited. When I questioned some antelope-hunters who often
visit the region, they said that where the Bujentu valley
leaves the high mountains, there is an old fort called Shindi,
on an ancient road, apparently, from Lulan to Kara-Sher.
At this point the valley always carries water, which reaches
Ying-pen only in flood. There is not enough, however, to
support a single family. If there were, some of the people
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