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On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1 |
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once leading eastwards of Lou-lan might reveal. In order
to assure adequate time for the latter rather hazardous
undertaking, it was essential to effect excavations rapidly
and therefore to take along as many labourers as I could
possibly manage to keep supplied with water, or rather ice.
What with big loads of ice sufficient to assure the minimum
allowances of water for thirty-five people for a month, with
food supplies of one month for all and of an additional month
for my own men, and with indispensable outfit to afford
protection in the wintry desert exposed to icy gales, the
thirty camels I succeeded in raising, including our own
fifteen, were by no means too many. It goes without saying
that everybody had to walk.
By February 1, 1914, I had safely started this large column
from Miran. Next day we took up our supply of ice packed
in bags from a terminal lagoon of the Tarim. Thence four
marches brought us to my immediate goal, a large ruined
fort which had first been sighted some years before by
Tokhta Akhun, my faithful old Loplik follower. Wind ero-
sion had deeply scoured the ground outside and in places
had completely breached the very solid enclosing rampart
(Fig. 63). It was built of alternate layers of brushwood
fascines and stamped clay, after the fashion observed before
in the ancient Chinese border wall west of Tun-huang.
Plentiful relics in the shape of architectural wood-carvings,
implements, coins, etc., were recovered by clearing what
remained of dwellings within. They proved occupation to
have ceased about the same period as at the Lou-lan site.
A well-marked dry river-course passing the fort was easily
traced by the rows of fallen dead trees lining its banks. As
proved by its direction, it was a southern branch of the
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