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0346 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
中央アジア踏査記 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000214
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that nobody besides us three was to learn of the origin of
these 'finds' as long as I was on Chinese soil. Thus Chiang
Ssŭ-yeh had to be the sole carrier for seven more nights,
with loads which grew steadily heavier and then needed
carriage by instalments.

Those days of anxious work had resulted in the rapid
search of all miscellaneous bundles piled up on the top and
in the selection of non-Chinese manuscripts, documents,
pictures and other relics of special interest. Then we
attacked the solid rampart of hard-tied uniform packets
containing Chinese manuscript rolls. This was a trouble-
some task in more than one sense. The mere labour of
clearing out the whole closely packed room might by itself
have dismayed a stouter heart than that of the Tao-shih.
It needed discreet treatment and judiciously administered
doses of silver to counteract his relapses into timorous
contrariness.

The effort was rewarded by the discovery, quite at the
bottom of those piles, of more miscellaneous bundles.
From their contents, crushed as they were by the weight
above, we recovered among other precious relics a beautiful
embroidery picture (Fig. 89) and other remains of ancient
textile art. Rapid as our examination of those hundreds of
manuscript packets had to be, it led also to the recovery
of more manuscripts in Indian and Central-Asian writings
which had got somehow embedded among the great array
of Chinese rolls. The search of all these could not be com-
pleted before the priest, seized by a sudden access of fear
or compunction, departed for the oasis overnight, locking
up the cave chapel with all its remaining treasures. But by
that time most of the 'selections for closer study', as our