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0241 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
中央アジア踏査記 : vol.1
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number of men, enabled me to clear all remains traceable
at the several groups of ruins. No time was lost in sending
off the camels. The majority were dispatched to the north,
where they might be expected to find grazing at least on
reed-beds near a salt spring which was known to Tokhta
Akhun at the foot of the barren Kuruk-tagh hills. The rest
were dispatched south to our half-way depot to fetch the
supplies of ice, etc., left there.

Looking round that morning from the high base of the
Stupa, I had before me vistas which seemed strangely famil-
iar and at the same time strikingly novel. To the south and
south-west there arose in small clusters ruins of timber and
plaster-built houses. These curiously recalled well-remem-
bered ruins at the Niya site, though here the winds had
left far less cover of protecting sand. Outside the area occu-
pied by these ruins there was nothing for the eye to rest on
but an endless succession of sharply-cut 'Yardangs' of hard
clay and deep-scoured trenches, all running in the same
direction as that relentless north-east wind had sculptured
them (Fig. 58). It was, too, strangely like a picture of the
sea, but of one frozen hard and buckled into innumerable
pressure ridges.

Excavation was started at a ruined dwelling situated close
to the south of the Stupa on the top of a terrace rising fully
eighteen feet above the wind-eroded ground. It was but a
scanty remnant of a well-built house, and the heavy timber
debris covering the slopes showed where rooms had com-
pletely disappeared through erosion of the underlying soil.
Yet the search of the surviving portions sufficed to bring to
light some Chinese documents on narrow slips of wood as
well as on paper. Other documents were in Kharoshthi,