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0212 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 / Page 212 (Color Image)

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for Chinese officials and better-class travellers, surprisingly
clean, and gratefully availed myself of its deep, shady veranda
for a short rest while the camels came up. It was nearly five
o'clock before my eyes again rested on green fields and trees.
Kok-robat ("the Green Station") receives its water, and with
it fertility, from a stream coming from the hill range that was
dimly visible in the west. I had to ride through the main
village, spreading its houses in a single street over a mile
long, before I found an arbour suitable for my camp. I could
not have desired a shadier or more secluded grove. Curiously
enough there was no proper entrance through the wall enclos-
ing it. But sun-dried bricks are a material easily handled
and replaced. So when my choice was made the owner
without much trouble knocked a hole in the wall and thus
established easy communication between the 'Bostan' and
his courtyard, where my servants were quartered. The yellow
leaves lay thick under the walnut and other fruit-trees, a sad
memento of rapidly advancing autumn.