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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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when I had to receive as my guest the host of a few minutes ago.
But it was easy enough to continue a conversation so recently
broken off, and volumes from my little travelling book-case,
among them Stanislas Julien's edition of Hiuen-Tsiang, helped
to entertain. I showed Huang-Daloi some of the manuscripts
found at Dandan-Uiliq and let him read the legends of the
Chinese coins of by-gone dynasties in my collection. He was
too polite to show whether they interested him as much as my
camp table, chair, and bed, which he also closely examined.
I had originally planned a halt of three days at Keriya, but
the non-arrival of the ponies expected from Khotan caused an
extension of two more days. To tell the truth, all of us were
not particularly sorry for the delay. My men, Ram Singh
included, were glad to have a little respite after the roughing
and exposure in the desert. I myself, the interviews with the
Amban once over, found so much to do in the way of notes to
be written up, accounts to be prepared, &c., that I could scarcely
spare an hour for a daily walk in the dusk. Dandan-Uiliq was
no place for clerical work, and it was only now that I was able
to write a short account of my work there for the Royal Asiatic
Society's Journal. The last four days at Keriya were cold and
gloomy. On the 14th and 15th of January there were light falls
of snow, scarcely more than an inch deep each day, yet sufficient
to give a thoroughly wintry aspect to the bare fields along the
river. It was cheerful to have a fire by which to spend the days
of busy work. But I missed in my little den the light and 'plein
air' of my camp life. As usual in all houses of Khotan and the
regions around, light is admitted to the inner rooms inhabited
during the winter only by a small square opening in the roof. It
is naturally scanty and ill-distributed.
My inquiries for antiquities made through Abdullah Khan and
others brought me little that was of interest. Keriya is not itself
an old place and the "treasure-seeking" profession does not flourish
as in Khotan. But on the first day after my arrival I received
information about ancient remains in the desert north of Niya
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