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Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.1 |
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to my old archaeological hunting-grounds around the Takla-
makan desert, and thence far away eastwards to within
the Great Wall of China. Owing to the kind interest
shown by Lord Curzon, then Viceroy of India, and the
help of devoted friends able to realize how closely the
proposed explorations touched the sphere of India's histori-
cal interests, my scheme obtained, in the spring of 1905,
the approval of the Indian Government and the Secretary
of State. Their favourable decision was facilitated by
the Trustees of the British Museum, who agreed to con-
tribute two-fifths of the estimated cost of the expedition,
£5000 in all, against a corresponding share in the pro-
spective 'archaeological proceeds,' as official language styled
them.
I had originally tried hard for permission to start during
the summer of 1905. But my efforts were frustrated by
the difficulty of securing that freedom from routine work
which I needed for the completion of my scientific Report
on the former journey. At last by the 1st of October 1905
I was released from administrative duties. Rarely have I
felt such relief as on that day when I could set out from
my alpine camp in Kaghan, the northernmost corner of
the Frontier Province, to Kashmir. There six months of
'special duty' were to enable me to complete in strict
seclusion my scientific Report, and also to make the multi-
farious preparations indispensable for the fresh explorations
before me.
It seemed quite a holiday, and at the same time like an
appropriate training, when, by six days' hard marching,
largely over mountain tracks which probably never before
had seen any laden traffic, I managed to move my camp
with its respectable array of book boxes across the high
passes above the Kishanganga into Kashmir. It was
pleasant, too, to find myself, after an enforced absence of
over five years, again in the beloved Alpine land to which
many seasons of congenial antiquarian labour had attached
me. Yet soon those happy summers seemed as if passed
in a previous birth.
Incessant desk-work, more fatiguing to me than any
hard marching or digging, kept me imprisoned in my little
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