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0433 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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Indian surveying assistant, R. B. Lal Singh, to proceed with
the topographical tasks I had planned. By exceptional efforts
this indefatigable old travel companion succeeded in ex-
tending our Nan-shan surveys over an area quite as large
as that mapped in 1907. Meanwhile, with my crushed leg
still feeling the strain very badly, I managed at last to get
myself carried down in a litter to Kan-chou.

It was in the same sadly crippled state that I set out by
the third week of August 1914 for the long-planned journey
through the 'Gobi' of the Pei-shan, the desert of 'the North-
ern Hills' as the Chinese call it. The journey was to take
me back to the northern portion of Chinese Turkistan for
the work of the autumn and winter. The route chosen for
it had never been followed before by any European traveller.
It was to acquaint me with a desert area which in parts still
remained unexplored. The approach to it lay past the small
oasis of Mao-mei, where the rivers of Kan-chou and Su-
chou unite to form the Etsin-gol of the Mongols. It is in
the wide bed of the Etsin-gol, practically dry for a great
portion of the year, that all the waters descending from the
Central Nan-shan find their way northwards before they
finally lose themselves in a basin devoid of drainage, just
as the Tarim does in the marshes of Lop-nor.