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0251 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
中央アジア踏査記 : vol.1
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CHAPTER IX

TRACKING THE ANCIENT ROUTE ACROSS THE DRIED-UP
LOP SEA

In the next chapter I shall give an account of the long
desert journey which in February and March 1907 brought
me by Marco Polo's route from Lop to Tun-huang and led
to the discovery of the ancient Chinese border wall near
this westernmost oasis of China proper. This journey had
allowed me to locate with certainty the eastern starting-
point of that forbidding desert route to Lou-lan, which
for centuries had served China's earliest intercourse with
Central Asia and the West. But an attempt to trace it right
through was possible only from the side of Lou-lan. From
there also it was bound to prove a formidable task. So I
had to wait until seven years later when my third expedi-
tion allowed me to undertake it.
On January 8, 1914, I arrived at Charkhlik. Once again
the little oasis had to serve as the base for my explorations
in the Lop desert. But my difficulties were greatly increased
by an event which, as a small but significant result of the
troubles caused in Turkistan by the Chinese revolution,
may receive here brief mention. Before I started on New
Year's Eve from Charchan for Charkhlik, I learned that a
band of Chinese 'revolutionaries', in other words, gamblers
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