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0191 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 / Page 191 (Color Image)

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CHAPTER IX

KHANUI AND ORDAM-PADSHAH

On the morning of the 4th of September, I was ready to take
the field again. The five weeks of refreshing rest at Kashgar
had passed so fast that there seemed at the end scarcely time
enough for the completion of the multifarious preparations
that my journey eastwards demanded. My start for Khanui,
where ancient remains had been reported, was a move of dis-
tinct practical utility. It gave me an opportunity for a kind
of experimental mobilisation of my caravan. As the site to
be examined lay only one long march to the north-east of
Kashgar, and as I should have to return to the latter place
before proceeding on the journey to Khotan, it was easy to
discover and remedy in time any deficiencies which in the
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