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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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professional help far away in the desert, I arranged to include
among the labourers a young cultivator who had been to a Mosque
school and had acquired the art of writing Turki, not according to
any high standard of orthography, it is true, but still legibly.
Another was used to practise tailoring in his spare hours, while
a third was proficient in leather work and could look after the
men's boots. Each man had to bring his 'Ketman,' the hoe in
common use throughout Turkestan, which proved an excellent
implement for excavation work in the sand. Steel shovels of
German make I had brought along from Kashgar; but I soon
found that, except where there was a risk of causing damage to
buried remains, the 'Ketman' to which the men were accustomed
yielded much better results.
For the carriage of the men's food, supplies, and other impedi-
menta the few camels I could spare were not sufficient. So a
dozen donkeys were engaged which offered the advantage of
needing a minimum of fodder. For the camels only a quantity of
oil made of rape seed could be taken along. Half a pound daily
of this evil-smelling liquid for each animal proved wonderfully
effective in keeping up their stamina during the trying desert
marches, when they had to go without grazing or fodder of any
kind and sometimes for a number of days without water. Our
ponies, for which the desert to be crossed offered neither sufficient
water nor fodder, were sent back to Khotan in charge of Niaz, the
interpreter. The dejected faces of my servants, when it was made
clear to them that they would have to trudge through the sands on
foot like myself, were truly amusing.
A severe cold brought on by exposure made me glad for the
day's halt at Tawakkel which these various preparations demanded,
and which was the last I could pass in comparative comfort. My
attempt to utilise it also for getting rid of a troublesome tooth
through the local barber's help proved a painful failure. This
worthy first vainly tortured me with a forceps of the most primitive
description, then grew nervous, and finally prayed hard to be spared
further efforts. Perhaps he had lost confidence in his hands and
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