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0319 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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prevailing. As for myself I had to rely almost solely on
the assumption that miscellaneous papers showing signs of
having been old and badly cared for, long before the final
closing of the cave, were most likely to contain materials of
historical and antiquarian interest.

It was hence a matter of relief to me when, subsequent
to my return to England in 1909, I learned that M. Paul
Pelliot, then Professor of Chinese at that great centre of
Far Eastern research, the École Française d'Extrême
Orient at Hanoi, and since appointed to a chair at the
Sorbonne, one of the most distinguished Sinologists
living, had in the course of the archaeological mission
entrusted to his leadership by the Government and several
learned bodies of France, visited Tun-huang about a year
after my own stay and been able to search thoroughly
all the masses of manuscripts I had been obliged to leave
behind in Wang's precarious keeping. Aided by his
exceptional mastery of Chinese literature and bibliography,
especially in its branches related to Buddhism, and by the
well-merited respect which his learning gained for him
everywhere among the Chinese, M. Pelliot succeeded in
rapidly sifting the contents of those hundreds and hun-
dreds of tightly packed bundles. The Tao-shih, who
seems to have been much reassured by the discretion
maintained about our own little transaction, and by the
absence of all awkward consequences, now showed greater
indulgence. No doubt duly rewarded, he allowed M.
Pelliot to pick out and bring away whatever manuscripts
he considered of importance for historical Chinese or philo-
logical studies. The preliminary account of his labours
shows how abundant has been his harvest, a result of
competent gleaning.

So it was a particular satisfaction for me when M.
Pelliot, after his own return early in 1910, expressed the
wish to examine my collection of Chinese manuscripts from
the cave, and eventually to undertake its catalogue. The
results of the first rapid scrutiny to which he was good
enough to devote a fortnight of unremitting labour, were as
gratifying as they well could be. It showed that the total
number of Chinese manuscripts amounted to over 9000,