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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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The Russian part of Andijan, stretching with broad and well-
watered roads to the east of the railway head, presented in all
respects the appearance of a thriving commercial town of Eastern
Europe. There were numbers of well-stocked shops, offices full of
Russian clerks, and, in the evening, a large gathering of European
employés listening to the military band that played in the public
gardens surrounding the fine church. The large native city some
miles off bore the same air of bustling life and prosperity. Andijan
was an important centre long before the Russian occupation, and
the great impetus given by the latter to the material progress of
Farghana had only added to the wealth of its traders, particularly
since the extension of the Trans-Caspian Railway. While walking
through the broad, well-kept Bazars, stocked with all kinds of
European manufacture, as well as the produce of home industries
in Russian and Chinese Turkestan, how little could I think of the
terrible doom awaiting Andijan in the earthquakes of the last
year! Every Central-Asian race seemed to be represented in
the busy multitude that thronged the Bazars. Curiously enough
I was greeted here by a Kashgar 'Haji,' who a little over a year
before, while on his way to Bombay, had met me at the Turki
Sarai of the Kashmir capital. Since performing the pilgrimage to
Mecca, he had seen Egypt and Constantinople, and had chosen for
his homeward journey the convenient railway route from the Black
Sea and the Caspian. Our meeting here seemed a striking illustra-
tion how small the "world" is growing, even in Central Asia.
On the 11th of June I left Andijan by the Trans-Caspian Railway,
which was now to carry me and my antiquities in comfort and safety
towards real Europe. This journey, however hurried it had to be
under the circumstances, enabled me to obtain many interesting
glimpses of a part of Central Asia, which by its historical associa-
tions and its ancient culture, has had a special fascination for me
ever since my Oriental studies began. Though luckily now under
a civilised power and hence fully accessible, how much it still offers
to the historian and archæologist to explore! I made short halts at
the provincial capitals of Margilan and Samarkand, where I was
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