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0250 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1 / Page 250 (Color Image)

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icy winds had already put him more or less *hors de combat*
before our arrival at the site.
I myself with a much reduced party set out through the
unexplored desert to the south-west. A seven days' trying
tramp brought us safely to the ice of the Tarim. Progress
was far more difficult than on the journey from Lop-nor,
owing to the steadily increasing height of the ridges of drift-
sand encountered. No more ruins, only occasional relics of
the Stone Age, were met on the way. Even the rows of dead
trees which marked old river courses, so frequent before,
here soon disappeared. The resulting difficulty about fuel
made itself seriously felt while minimum temperatures fell
to 48° Fahrenheit below freezing-point. Interesting geo-
graphical observations attended this journey, which ulti-
mately carried us back to Charkhlik and Miran; but of
them no account is needed in this place.