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0438 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
中央アジア踏査記 : vol.1
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prints both in Tibetan and the as yet undeciphered old
Tangut language, as well as plenty of interesting relievos in
stucco or terra-cotta and frescoes. The very extensive refuse-
heaps of the town yielded up a large number of miscellane-
ous records on paper in a variety of scripts, Chinese, Tangut,
Uigur or Turkish. Among them I may specially mention a
printed bank-note of the Mongol Emperor Kublai, Marco
Polo's patron, dating from the year 1260. Finds of fine
glazed pottery, ornaments of stone and metal and other
antiques, were also abundant on wind-eroded ground.
There was much to support the belief that the final
abandonment of Khara-khoto was brought about by
difficulties of irrigation. The dry river-bed which passes
close to the ruined town lies some seven miles away to the
east of the nearest branch still reached by the summer
floods. The old canals we traced leading to the abandoned
farms eastwards are removed considerably farther. It was
impossible definitely to determine whether this failure of
irrigation had been brought about by a reduction in the
volume of the Etsin-gol's water or been caused by a change
in the river course at canal-head with which the settlement
had for some reason been unable to cope. Anyhow, there
seemed good reason to believe that the water-supply now
reaching the delta during a few summer months would no
longer suffice to assure adequate irrigation for the once
cultivated area. Even at the Mao-mei oasis, over 150 miles
farther up the river, and with conditions far more favourable
for the maintenance of canals, serious trouble had been
experienced for years past in securing an adequate supply
of water early enough in the season. Hence, much of the
once cultivated area had been abandoned.