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0461 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 / Page 461 (Color Image)

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CHAPTER XXVII

THE RUINS OF ENDERE

On the 13th of February I once more started my caravan, back to
Imam Jafar Sadik. As I passed one ruin after the other familiar to
me from the incessant work of the last weeks, I took occasion to
collect specimens of the various kinds of wood from the withered
trees of ancient orchards. Where will it be next that I can walk
amidst poplars and fruit trees planted when the Cæsars still ruled in
Rome and the knowledge of Greek writing had barely vanished on
the Indus?

I had already heard at Niya, of ancient remains in the desert
near the Endere stream about half-way towards Cherchen, and
subsequent information decided me to select them for my next
explorations. It would have been difficult to take all my former
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