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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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I was glad that, on the morning after my arrival, I still felt well
enough to call on Pan-Darin, who received me at his Yamen like
an old friend, and, as I imagined, somewhat like a fellow-scholar.
Much I had to tell him of my excavations and the finds which
rewarded them. When next day the old Amban came to return
the visit, I had ready a little representative exhibition of my
antiquities to satisfy his curiosity. Pan-Darin is undoubtedly
a man of learning and versed in Chinese history. All the
same I was surprised by the historical sense displayed in the
questions which he put to me regarding the relative age, the
import and character of the multifarious ancient documents I had
discovered. When I attempted to explain by a reference to
the plates in Professor Bühler's "Indian Palæography" how a
study of the writing in the various manuscripts would enable
us to fix their dates with approximate accuracy, Pan-Darin at
once showed his appreciation of this evidence by writing down
the modifications through which Chinese characters have passed
in succeeding periods. I felt almost in company of a colleague,
and forgot for a moment the irksome circumlocution and con-
fusion which conversation through a not over-intelligent interpreter
implies.
Only in one respect did the interest of Pan-Darin in my finds
at first embarrass me. He dwelt on the fact of all these old records
being carried away to the Far West. What could he show to the
Fu-tai or Governor-General at Urumchi, who had been so in-
quisitive about the object of my excavations, and who undoubtedly
would wish to hear of the results? I knew how sympathetically
Pan-Darin had represented my case, and thanked him heartily for
the support he had given to the cause of science. I assured him
against the future curiosity of the Fu-tai by promising to send from
Kashgar photographs of the various types of ancient documents.
"But they should be in duplicate," was the cautious demand of my
learned friend. For he seemed eager to retain for himself some
samples of the strange records which the desert had yielded up
after so many centuries. I feel confident that, of the copies of my
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