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0276 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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work was impossible in the caves. There was some little
trouble about getting enough boxes without exciting
suspicion at Tun-huang. Luckily I had foreseen the
chance and provided some 'empties' beforehand. The
rest were secured in disguise and by discreet instalments.
So everything passed off without a hitch.
The good Tao-shih now seemed to breathe freely
again, and almost ready to recognize that I was performing
a pious act in rescuing for Western scholarship those relics
of ancient Buddhist literature and art which local ignorance
would allow to lie here neglected or to be lost in the end.
When I finally said good-bye to the 'Thousand Buddhas,'
his jovial sharp-cut face had resumed once more its look of
shy but self-contented serenity. We parted in fullest
amity. I may anticipate here that I received gratifying
proof of the peaceful state of his mind when, on my return
to An-hsi four months later, he agreed to let depart for
that 'temple of learning' in the distant West another share
of the Chinese and Tibetan manuscripts in the shape of
over two hundred compact bundles. But my time for
feeling true relief came when all the twenty-four cases,
heavy with manuscript treasures rescued from that strange
place of hiding, and the five more filled with paintings and
other art relics from the same cave, had been deposited
safely in the British Museum.