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Section I.-THE OASIS OF KUA-CHOU AN
ly (see v.) I left the caves of the Thousand Bud
safely packed in twelve cases, and, after a
laden fresh for all the kindness and friendly supp
caravan for An-hsi. Three hot marches aga
close on the cart road leading along the barr
stage of the Nan-shan before I reached Kua-chou
migration from the ancient name of the oasis and
The town followed is likely to have served from
ia. It leaves the cultivated area at a distance of
and cross wholly desert ground, scrub-covered
nature of this ground cannot have changed greatly
ording to; for the torrent beds which break
to be found, are not likely in historical ti
ons. Only at one point is spring water with good
hole where the bed of a stream debouches in a m
to broken and passing the little oasis of Tung-pu-
which old legend recorded in the Tun-huang do.
and to a dove statement that the general chara
ance at recent times.
The reliable little text which Dr. L. Giles fou
ving manuscript tells us of a miraculous spring
ons of Sho-shan. It was called 'the Êrh-shih sp
those expeditions undertaken against Ferghana w
that are well known from the Annals. 'In the Hu
was dying greatly from thirst. Having prayed
general-nik with his sword, whereupon a stream s
He trod tens of li into the Huang-ho lao [Yellow G
the rush of the water when he was very thirsty w
the conquest of this the water ceased to flow
therein even many people came to drink, the
angry on entry . . . and these phenomena conti
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