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0173 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 / Page 173 (Color Image)

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STAY AT KASHGAR

The cheerful impressions of that first evening under Mr.
Macartney's hospitable roof were a true indication of the
happy circumstances under which the busy weeks of my stay
at Kashgar were to pass. Busy, indeed, they were bound to
be ; for numerous and urgent tasks had to be completed before
I could set out from the capital of Chinese Turkestan for the
proper goal of my explorations. For almost every one of these
tasks I stood in need of Mr. Macartney's experience and active
help. But great as the facilities were which his official
position and local knowledge assured to me, I could scarcely
have availed myself of them with full advantage, had not his
friendly care surrounded me from the first with all personal
comfort and encouragement. After two months of almost
incessant mountain travel I felt the need of some bodily rest.
Nowhere could I have combined it more pleasantly with active
preparations for the long journey before me than in the
charming residence to which my kind Kashgar friends
welcomed me.

Chini-Bagh had been a simple walled-in orchard with a
little garden house, such as every respectable Kashgari loves
to own outside the city walls, when Mr. Macartney, more than
ten years before my visit, took up the appointment of the
Indian Government's Political Representative at Kashgar.
Continuous improvements effected with much ingenuity and
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