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0135 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 / Page 135 (Color Image)

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turned out to be photographed in their parade dress—blue
velvet trousers, red cloth tunics, with Chinese letters in black
velvet sewn on them, and neat black felt boots. All these
articles were in good order, less so their Enfield carbines
bearing the "Tower" mark. In the meantime the news of
my arrival had been sent on to Karm Shah Beg, the chief of
the Kirghiz herdsmen in the valley North of the Ulugh-Rabat,
who duly came to welcome me. As the rain had stopped I
moved my baggage down two miles from the post of Subashi
to where his Kirghas stood. One of them was readily vacated
for the accommodation of my servants, while a short break in
the rain sufficed for pitching my tent on a dry, sandy spot by
the side of one of the numerous branches by which the stream
of the Subashi Valley finds its way down to the Karakul Lake.
The glittering surface of the latter, one and a half miles
further North, could just be seen from my camp.