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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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carried across the elevated spurs which descend from this range,
he had succeeded in connecting our surveys eastwards with the
work done by Captain Deasy around Polu. In accordance with my
instructions he then proceeded to Keriya, and thence a fresh
'Darogha' supplied as a guide and escort by the local Amban had
taken him through the jungle belt flanking the Keriya River down
to the point where he fell in with the party I had sent ahead under
Kasim, the hunter.
Ram Singh, reticent at all times, had little to relate either that
day or thereafter of the mountain tracts he had passed through,
apart from topographical details which appealed to his professional
training, and which had already been duly recorded in his plane-
table "sections." That his little party had undergone considerable
hardships both on account of the cold and the want of all local
supplies, I could readily believe from my own experience. But
what had evidently impressed him more than anything else, and
what prompted him to a short outburst of quite unusual communica-
tiveness, was the weird desolation of the desert, the total absence
of life of any kind among the high waves of sand he had crossed
since leaving the banks of the frozen river. I could see that the
curiosity excited by the manifestly Indian character of the sculp-
tures and paintings I had unearthed was by no means sufficient to
counter-balance the uncanny feelings which these strange sur-
roundings, pregnant with death and solitude, had roused in my
otherwise hardy Hindu followers. I did my best to cheer them by
sending as a welcome gift when their camp was pitched such little
luxuries as I had—packets of my own compressed tea, some frozen
eggs, raisins and almonds, &c.
In the evening when the dusk had put a stop to excavation and I
could tramp back through the sand to the shelter of my little tent,
I lost no time in sending for Ram Singh to examine his plane-table
work. A comparison of the position indicated in it for Dandan-
Uiliq with my own fixing of the site would be a decisive test for
the accuracy of our respective surveys. Considering the very
deceptive nature of the desert ground over which we had carried so
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