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On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1 |
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After gaining Altmish-bulak by the most direct route from
the north and taking his supply of ice there, he had examined
certain ancient remains in the extreme north-east of Lou-
lan for which I had not been able to spare time on the
previous year's march. Then striking south-west from the
point where the ancient Chinese route entered the salt-
encrusted bed of the dried-up Lop sea, he had by very
trying marches traced its shore line to the northernmost of
the lagoons then reached by the spring floods of the Tarim.
Finally, after crossing the area of formidable high dunes
traversed by me in January 1907, but in another direction,
he gained the foot of the Kuruk-tagh. From this excep-
tionally difficult exploration, which had kept the party
from contact with any human being and even the sight of
a living animal for a month and a half, he brought back
an accurate plane-table survey and detailed diary records,
besides interesting archaeological finds.
We subsequently moved westward to the point known as
Ying-p'an, situated near to the point where the ancient bed
of the 'Dry River' was found to turn off from the Konche-
darya, the river from Kara-shahr, as it then flowed. Interest-
ing remains of a ruined fort and a small temple site, first
noticed by Colonel Kozloff and Dr. Hedin, were proved
by the evidence of finds to belong to a fortified station. A
Chinese record mentions it under the name of Chu-pin, on
the river carrying water to Lou-lan in the early centuries
of our era. The station was obviously meant to guard an
important point of the ancient Chinese route where its line
is crossed by the track still leading from Charkhlik to Tur-
fan. That it held a Chinese garrison was shown by the
remains found in some well-preserved tombs.
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