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0049 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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a Begship at Charklik, had sought here an asylum from
his Turkestan creditors. Like the versatile person he
was, he had kept an eye open everywhere for 'Kone-
shahrs' with possible treasure. So he was able to tell me
of ruins he had seen to the north-east of Tun-huang ; of a
walled town which lay half-buried under sand near Nan-
hu, to the south-west, and so on. Vague as much of this
information necessarily was, it helped in forming my plans,
and was a perfect godsend when compared with the exasper-
atingly stolid and steadfast declaration of utter ignorance
which met every enquiry addressed to the Chinese of
Tun-huang.

But the most urgent task on hand was the preparation
of the detailed accounts which I owed for long months
past to the Comptroller of India Treasuries and the Indian
Survey Department, and which I was anxious to despatch
safely through the last of the Khotan Dakchis I had kept
by me. Ever since the preceding summer there had been
no rest available for dealing with this accounts' incubus
which I had to face single-handed. What its weight was
may be gauged from the fact that it meant not merely
extracting all and sundry items, however small, from my
general cash record into properly balanced 'Monthly Cash
Accounts' in due official form, as if I were my own
'Treasury Officer,' but also dividing all entries relating to
transport and the like according to whether they were to
be debited against the Government grant or the Survey of
India's subsidy meant for 'the Survey Party,' or, finally,
against my own personal purse, which would in due course
recoup them from authorized 'Travelling and Halting
Allowances.' No wonder that for five or six days I felt
as if condemned to living more or less in the atmosphere
of an Indian Office room—though an uncommonly cold
one.