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0227 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2 / Page 227 (Color Image)

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[Photo] 185 TEMPLE COURT AT 'CRESCENT LAKE,' TUN-HUANG.

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ing from time to time to have a good
again, retreading with the most slo
seemed as if familiar priestly figur
ness and tombs were trying to call me
l times of old.

When we sat down together in the eve
l a simpler repast al fresco, I told Chiang
to have spared this day of peaceful
ark awaiting us at the 'Thousand Bud
l greatly enjoyed this outing; but li
umour and keenly alive to any piece d
ons or lullabies, he then gave an addr
ually the delay. He had picked up s
variably after the annual fête the gro
Ch'ien-fo-tung went a violent dust-sto
eral plates of the refuse left behind afte
d picnic. So it would be better to h
house sweeping was done. Considering t
arily cease blowing down the Su-lo Heri
couple of days at a time, one could m
arved that the popular expectation woul

So it came about that when on May
d to the sacred caves, we moved in a
ashed by a storm of the previous nig
ness, sweeping westwards from Ash-
desert ranges of the Pei-shan, have be
such a sanctuary since early ages that them
this fine sand left for them to play wi
Chinese would have meant a choking
men have only a pleasant protecti
of the sun. For, of course, now Sün-
until usually mid-day before carts were
dispatched with our heavy baggage. T
ortion of ground we traversed to the d
looked delightfully green, with young in
ing fields, and wild irises of bright bl
the pasture the sides of the deep sill
Civilizations seemed to find it hard to m
honour after their outing, and in front
Unconsciously the women sat about it be