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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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Endere. Here, too, the river has in recent years been shifting
westwards, so that we found quite a respectable sheet of ice, from
10 to 20 yards in width, covering what previously had been a
deserted, dry bed. On the other hand this return to the earlier
channel has led to the abandonment of the little 'Tarim' or colony
that had been formed some miles further east on the "new river,"
now in process of drying up. It was manifest that these constant
changes in the river courses, just before the desert absorbs them,
account for the many dry depressions we had crossed since leaving
Imam Jafar Sadik.
On the following day we moved up the Endere stream for about
ten miles to where a deserted shed of rushes marked the shepherd
station of Kara-öchke-öltürgan ("Where the black goat sat").
From there our guides struck into the desert south-eastwards, and
after another ten miles' march next morning across low dunes I
arrived at what they called the 'Potai' of the 'Kone-shahr.' It was,
of course, a brick Stupa, as I had assumed when this feature of the
site was first vaguely mentioned to me at the Mazar. Nor was I
surprised to find that it had been dug into, no doubt in the hope of
treasure. All the same I pushed on with increased eagerness south-
wards, where the remains of old houses were said to exist. The
eroded ground around the Stupa was thickly strewn with pottery
fragments, many of them coloured; but no trace of structural
remains appeared until I had arrived quite close to low dunes
enclosing the ruins. The rows of wooden posts that rose above the
sand were indeed a familiar sight. But the high brick walls of some
large building, and the remnants of a massive rampart encircling
the ruins, presented a novel feature.
The contingent of labourers from Niya had arrived just when I
was nearing the Stupa. Considering the great distance, some 120
miles, from which the men had been brought, and the difficulty of
communicating with them over wholly uninhabited ground, I felt
not a little pleased at this well-managed concentration, which
enabled me to start work at once. Going over the ground once
enclosed by the circumvallation which had a diameter of about 425
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