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0455 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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[Photo] 232 枯れた湖床の向こう側にあるホウツから南への眺め.VIEW SOUTH FROM HOU-TZŬ PASS ACROSS DRY LAKE BASIN.

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small amphitheatre, and an ascent of 1000 feet
distant mountains brought us on a grassy pla
to Pan-tŭnga. On its edge rose a watch-tow
stamped clay with a wooden framework and
old construction to the watch-towers familia
the Inner Limes. But what a change in the
age! Clay and woodwork both looked milli
so mild climatic conditions so different fro
place no estimation of date could be hazard

Only one thing seemed clear. This wa
exactly similar one on the pass itself, toget
style lore of which I found traces on the Gorge
proved, plainly proved that nomads had been
these mountains. Who were the people who mo
the low lands from the now uninhabited valley
shan." I thought of the 'Little Yüeh-chih,' tenu
anciently nomad race, who are mentioned in the
by later Chinese records down to the ten mo
They are said to have been left behind her t
subdued, the 'Great Yüeh-chih,' who under t
Indo-Scythians were destined to become the ru
Oxus region and the Indian North-West, yet
their aggression in the second century B.C.
their great migration westwards. If only the
which have never looked down on these valley
could tell us the story!

The distance across the plateau to the firs
southward, was only three-quarters of a mile, a
it was. It brought a surprise. A stream still
from a snow-capped peak on the right clinging
my eyes, in a boulder-filled basin enclosed by
on all sides. Its water, no doubt, finds at la
passage into the Chiao-shui valley below. Ju
had reached the pass itself, about 11,150 feet
surveyed, the same curious topographical featu
itself on a larger scale. Below a beautiful gr
narrow plateau rising in the centre to close t
system of a large level basin to the south
(Fig. 232).

At first glance it might have been take