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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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a Sarai closely resembling that of the preceding station. It
stands on the edge of a broad, sandy ravine, that descends
from a gap in the low hill-range south. A large and well-filled
tank close below the Sarai was the only redeeming feature in
the bleak landscape. The course of the small watercourse
that feeds it at times is marked far away northward by a line
of low shrubs. In the evening the Chinese clerk in charge of
the post station came to call on me. He seemed a quiet,
well-educated man, not over-pleased with his desert sur-
roundings. He has nine Dak horses and four postmen under
him to carry letters to Guma and Karghalik. The "mails"
along the postal routes of the country are ordinarily restricted
to the official correspondence of the Chinese authorities. My
visitor told me that he had come two years ago from Urumchi
with the Karghalik Amban, whose district in Ho-nan was also
his own. That his village was near to the birth-place of
'Tang-Seng,' i.e., Hinen-Tsiang, was a piece of information,
not indifferent to me. So I treated this modest exile to tea
and cake, and tried to cheer him with the hope of an early
transfer to a more congenial post.
The march from Cholak Langar to Guma was reckoned
a long one, nine 'Potais.' So the camels marched off with
the heavy baggage by daybreak. My tent and the kitchen
things going by ponies could start later. While they were
being packed I strolled into the courtyard of the Sarai, the
walls of which I found plastered over with official edicts in
Chinese and Turki. Conspicuous among them was a long
tri-lingual proclamation, in Chinese, Mongolian, and Turki,
printed on large sheets of yellow paper. It was an edict in
the name of the Emperor, referring to the trade intercourse
with the Russian markets, and had been issued some two
months before. Niaz Akhun, my interpreter, was eager to
know whether it was likely to be the last edict of the Emperor,
whose flight from Peking was being reported all through the
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