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0189 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
中央アジア踏査記 : vol.1
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other real property buried long centuries since under the
silent dunes. Where was the law court which might help
me to claim them?

As our work proceeded to the south of the site the sur-
roundings grew, if anything, more sombre and almost lugu-
brious, in spite of the appearance of still living scrub. The
ruins had to be searched for amidst closely set sand-cones
raising their heads covered with tangled masses of tamarisk,
dead or living, to forty or fifty feet. Ruins just emerging
from the foot of sand-hills with deeply eroded ground on
the other side made up weird pictures of solitude. The dust
haze raised by a cold north-east wind added an appro-
priately coloured atmosphere. It was almost with a feeling
of relief that we emerged at last upon somewhat more open
ground towards the southern end of the site. The ruined
dwellings were small there; but an inspection of the ground
near by revealed features of interest.

Only some sixty yards off the ruin which on my renewed
visit had yielded the first tablets there stood a square of
dead mulberry trees raising their trunks up to ten feet or
more, which had once cast their shade over a tank still
marked by a depression (Fig. 6). The stream from which
the canal which once fed the tank must have taken its rise
was not far to seek; for behind the nearest ridge of high
tamarisk-crowned sand-cones to the west there still lay a
foot-bridge about ninety feet long stretched across an un-
mistakable dry river-bed. Of the trestles which had carried
the bridge two still stood upright. Beyond the left bank
stretched shrivelled remains of arbours for upwards of 200
yards. For over two miles to the north-west I could follow
the traces of the ancient river-bed, in places completely