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0696 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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Five long marches brought me from the edge of the Khotan
oasis to the mountain village of Polur, where the western-
most route from Tibet debouches. We were now steadily
ascending in a diagonal line the great gravel glacis which
slopes down from the northern main range of the Kun-lun
(see Map II.), and I felt with delight how each night's halt
gave increased coolness.

On August 5th we struck at Hasha the first of those
submontane oases, narrow but long-stretched, which line
the beds of a succession of glacier-fed rivers where they
debouch from the foot-hills. At Hasha, as well as at
Chakar and Nura, cultivation had evidently not yet reached
the limits of the available water. Yet attentive Muhammad
Yusuf Beg, who since 1906 had been transferred to this
'Hill' district from Niya, told me that the official reckoning
of households in the whole of this wide tract had multiplied
about nine-fold since the re-establishment of Chinese rule in
1878. Earlier changes of this kind in the extent of cultiva-
tion were indicated by remains of a small roughly built
town of uncertain date which I found near Hasha, between
two steep-scarped river beds in a position recalling Yar-
khoto, and by a débris area, manifestly of Buddhist times,
below Nura. It was at the latter place that the magnificent
line of snowy peaks to the south first showed itself in full
glory.

At the pretty cluster of little oases known as Imamlar I
visited the well-shaded shrine, famous as a pilgrimage-place
throughout the Tarim Basin, where pious belief has located
the resting-place of four of those legendary Imams, or early

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