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On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1 |
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There was nothing to detain me at the place. Apart from
some pilgrim shelters, a tumbled-down Madrasah or *soi-
disant* college and trees decked with thousands of rags, votive
offerings of pilgrims, there was to be seen there only a curious
hillock composed of stony detritus overlying an outcrop of
rock-salt. From a little lake into which the water of the
small terminal channel of the river is dammed up before
it finally disappears, we filled two galvanized iron tanks
brought from Calcutta as well as improvized sacks and nets
with ice. This was to provide the indispensable minimum
of water while my camp, counting from forty to fifty people,
was pitched far out in the desert.
I cannot stop to describe how the belt of luxuriant jungle
of wild poplar trees and tamarisks passed below the Mazar
gradually changed into a wide expanse of low sand-cones
overgrown with scrub, groups of dead trees, gaunt and
twisted by age, rising between them. Towards the end of a
second easy march we passed a belt of more open ground
where remains of broken pottery, an enclosure made of
thickly packed rushes, a line of trunks of dead fruit trees and
planted poplars, suggested the site of some ancient farm.
Soon we arrived at the first two 'houses' our guides had
spoken of (Fig. 35).
They stood on what at first sight looked like small ele-
vated terraces. But subsequent observation proved these to
be merely portions of the original loess soil that had escaped
the erosion which was proceeding all round. The mode of
construction was materially the same as at the dwellings of
Dandan-oilik, but the dimensions were much greater and
the timber framework of the walls, rising above the sand
which filled the rooms, far more elaborate and solid. The
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