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0605 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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doi: 10.20676/00000213
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Our journey was resumed in good spirits on the morning
of February 7th. If we were right in the position assigned
to our camping-ground we ought to reach the grazing-
ground of Koshlash, where Hedin found the river ending,
in three days. Shaping our course upon this assumption
we steered west-by-south, and after passing for some five
miles through regular thickets of dead trees between high
bare ridges, emerged on more open ground, where dunes
were quite low and live tamarisks plentiful.

Here we picked up a dry river bed, well defined in
some places, but elsewhere again completely smothered by
drift sand (Fig. 282). After a few miles it became con-
tinuous, its width varying from sixty to a hundred yards,
and its depth from twenty to thirty feet. For a distance of
eleven miles we steadily followed this winding river course,
and then tried to cut off a great bend by going due south.
The result was that, after some three miles' progress
through dead forest, we found ourselves between two huge
accumulated ridges of drift sand, with no trace of the river
bed that was to guide us, and not a single living tree in
sight.

We were, by the showing of our plane-table, still a long
way north of latitude 39°, where the waters of the river
lose themselves in the sand, and our chance of getting
water by wells depended entirely on following some dry
bed receiving the drainage from the terminal river course.
The safest plan was to regain the old river bed we had
left, before it was too late. So with beasts and men much
fatigued—even the hard-marching Lal Singh had dropped
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