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On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1 |
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FRAGMENTS OF TERRA-COTTA FIGURINES AND DECORATED POTTERY FROM YOTKAN. |
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offered the advantage of needing only a sm[all]
For the camels only a quantity of oil-mash
be taken. Less than half a pint every
evil-smelling liquid proved wonderfully ef[fective]
up their stamina on desert marches whi[ch]
often for a number of days without wa[ter]
riding ponies were sent back to Kho[tan]
of us had to walk.
When at last by December 12 we set[t]
minimum of indispensable impedimenta[,]
of labourers duly collected, half the popu[lation]
seemed to be assembled to witness our [start]
advance party had been sent ahead [to]
under the guidance of Kasim, the [treasure]
hunters. He had orders to dig whe[rever]
able for camps. The footprints left b[y]
guide.
The dunes were low in the area [we]
two days after striking off from the st[age]
did not rise to such heights as were [encoun]
tered on my desert crossings. Yet ma[rching]
proved slow work. Since the animals [needed]
out-exertion, progress of the hea[vily]
rized to about a mile and a quar[ter]
The tamarisk and reed scrub, plent[iful]
in the course of our second march, w[as]
he only other vegetation, disappeared [later]
tres. Luckily at intervals there rose s[mall]
of sand thickly covered with tamarisk [scrub]
of which supplied excellent fuel. It wa[s]
in hollows scooped out of the soil by t[he]
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