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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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sufficed to show that the physical conditions absolutely
precluded the possibility of such relics surviving there.
It was not in the hope of striking finds of this kind that I
wandered for a long time over the débris-strewn waste of
Kakshal, though it was getting late and Moji, the end of
the march, was still far off. There was a weird fascination
in the almost complete decay and utter desolation of the
scanty remains that marked once thickly inhabited settle-
ments. Occupied in the examination of small pottery pieces
with ornamental design, &c., which my men picked up again
and again, I found it difficult to tear myself away even when
the last red rays of the sinking sun had strangely illumined
the yellow soil and its streaks of reddish-brown pottery. The
route to which I rode off at last was difficult to see, for
invading waves of low sand dunes had to be crossed for
several miles before scrubby ground was reached again near
the little village of Chudda. The moon had come up by that
time, and as I was riding comfortably along guided by its light
I could indulge in reflections regarding the strange places I
had seen, without risking loss of the track. It was close on
eight o'clock when I arrived at last at Moji, where my tent
was ready to receive me.
On the 7th I was induced to make a halt at Moji by the
quantity of old coins that were brought to me, almost all of
an early Muhammadan ruler who calls himself in the legend
Sulaiman Khagan. The site from which they had been
obtained, and which I proceeded to examine early in the
morning, lies only a mile to the north of the village, and
is known as Tögujai. There I found a number of loess banks
covered with broken pottery, similar to that seen on the pre-
vious day, but less affected by erosion; and the now dry
ravines which the flood water of the early summer had cut
through them were the place where the old coins had been
extracted. A number of men had accompanied me from the
village by the local Beg's order, and their search soon fur-
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