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Remains at
east end of
Hanguya
Tati.

Going west-north-west of this second Stūpa, two big ridges of sand rising to 50–60 feet had
to be crossed before the structural remains reported were reached after about 1½ miles amidst
dunes rising to 15–20 feet. Wherever on the way small patches of bare ground were met, they were
covered with old pottery débris. The same was the case on the open expanse of drift-sand reached
after crossing those high ridges. To the west and south-west it extended unbroken, forming
manifestly a part of that great 'Hanguya Tati' which I had first visited in 1901 at the Stūpa of
Arka-kuduk and subsequently struck again in 1906 on my way to the Ak-terek site.⁸ In one place
the clay walls of a house eroded to within a foot or so of the ground could be traced. In two of
its rooms there were fireplaces spared from the thickness of the wall to a depth of 2 feet, and
apparently different in construction from those seen at Dandān-oilik, Khādalik, and elsewhere.
About 20 yards to the south a débris heap, about 40 feet in diameter, of charred wood and
burned clay marked the site of what was probably a temple. It had obviously been destroyed
by fire and its remains since frequently searched for 'treasure', a wood-cutter's track passing
close by.

Increased
irrigation
east of
Yurung-
kāsh River.

My subsequent marches took me through the intensively cultivated village tracts of Hanguya
and Sampula to Bizil (Map No. 28. A. 1) on the right bank of the Yurung-kāsh where it issues from
the mountains. On the way I was able to collect useful information about the elaborate system of
canals which irrigate the Khotan cantons situated to the east of the Yurung-kāsh and now comprised
in the separate hsien of Lop. But this is not the place to record it nor to detail the instructive
observations made when inspecting, in the company of local Bēgs and Mirābs, the work already
started on the new canal which skirted the foot of the gravel glacis to the south and was ultimately
to bring water to the 'Sai' of Yailaghan.⁹ It must suffice to state that there was evidence on all
sides of the steady increase which the area under cultivation in this important portion of the Khotan
oasis had been undergoing during recent years, both by 'new land' on the desert edge being brought
under irrigation and by the reclamation of shōrluk, or salt-impregnated marshy ground, previously
neglected within the old cultivated area. If these conditions should continue for some time, the
careful record made in our maps of the cultivation limits, wherever they could be accurately
observed, may prove of great interest hereafter. It will help in gauging the range of the latest
of those changes in the economic history of Khotan which for earlier periods archaeological research
must assume, but cannot hope accurately to determine.

'Tati' of
Jamada
revisited.

From Bizil I crossed to the west bank of the Yurung-kāsh in order to revisit the site of
'Mount Gośrṅga' and some remains reported in its neighbourhood. The march across the stony
'Sai' separating here the two main rivers of Khotan was done in a raging sand-storm which made
observation very difficult. But after crossing the Yurung-kāsh, then carrying water 1–1½ feet deep
over some 100 yards only of its mile-wide bed, we passed the head of the canals which irrigate the
cantons on the left bank of the river, and then reached a débris-covered waste forming part of the
'Tati' of Jamada. The latter had already been visited by me on my first journey,¹⁰ but was found
now to have a continuation for about a mile further to the south-west.

To this there had been brought recently the extension of a new canal which since 1901 had
been opened above Chalma-kazān and had turned this old site into an irrigated area owned by the

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