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0100 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 / Page 100 (Color Image)

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rock and shingle the crossing of the glacier was comparatively
easy. All the same it took me nearly an hour to scramble
across the mile and half of the glacier, and the slippery
ground delayed the coolies still longer. There are years
when masses of ice pushed down from the unexplored upper
reach of the glacier make the crossing far more difficult even
for men, and altogether close the route for animals. It is in
view of such obstacles, which no skill of the engineer can ever