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0163 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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[Photo] 175 葦の束柴と泥によって作られた古代の境界防壁の連なり.敦煌長城T. XIII.塔の東にて.STRETCH OF OF ANCIENT BORDER-WALL, BUILT OF LAYERS OF REED FASCINES AND CLAY, EAST OF TOWER T. XIII., TUN-HUANG LIMES.
[Photo] 176 塩沢に連なる古代の境界城壁跡.敦煌長城T. XIV.塔の西にて.南から望む.REMAINS OF ANCIENT BORDER-WALL ADJOINING SALT MARSH, TO WEST OF TOWER T. XIV. A., TUN-HUANG LIMES, SEEN FROM SOUTH.

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light as if the plaster coating of their
to make them conspicuous. As far
ular, with long stretches of the wall be
arly rising as straight brownish lines
gravel desert (Fig. 175), how easy
hat towers and wall were still guard
eyes were scanning the deceptive pl
northward with the keenness born of
ent and artful enemy!
arrow-heads in bronze which I pi
near the wall and towers (Fig. 174, 1
tacks and alarms were familiar order

Unconsciously my eye sought the str
flanking the salt marshes where Hun raid
horsemen making their rush in the twili
all I amused myself on the Indian bo
y with looking out for convenient lines o
our friends, Wazir or Afrid outlaw
might fancy! Once across the ch
d lay open for Hun raiders to any part o
oasis or the settlements farther east. A
desert stretching north of the wall rep
a far more formidable obstacle than the li
as itself. But did not those hardy horse
great deserts almost as forbidding befor
shallow plains to become the scourge of the
Empire? Just as the notion of time sh
of distances, seemed in danger of being di
ight how these same Huns, whom the Em
struggled so long to keep away from the
doomed a few centuries later to shake the

and Dynasties.
o the slanting rays of the setting sun w
wings of the past far more real. The li
d down quite distinctly for miles and mile
showed to little more than a low rid
with reed bundles sticking out (Fig.
a furrow-like line running parallel to the
amount of some thirty feet within where