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effective from afar as it had been on my first journey, it was a special satisfaction to obtain ocular
proof of the success of his colony, a lasting result of his beneficent administration.

Desert site
near Ma-
yaklik.

After passing the grazing grounds on the river's right bank below Sarigh-yez, where the
'Yangi-darya' branch at present rejoins the main bed,⁸ we struck across the high dunes to the east
and after some 5 miles were conducted by 'Abbās to the spot where two years earlier he had
noticed traces of a plastered and painted wall emerging from the bare sand. At first sight the
'site' looked most unpromising, and in the absence of all surface remains it was surprising that our
guide should have been able to locate it again (Fig. 322). A few fragments of coloured mud plaster
were found lying loose on the slope of a large sand hillock rising fully 20 feet above the original
ground-level. To the west and
north of it patches of ground left
bare between greyish sand ridges
were covered with fragments of
very hard bright red pottery which
looked ancient. The spot proved
to be situated about 2 miles from
the left bank of the Yurung-kāsh
River where it is lined by a
scrubby grazing ground known as
Mayaklik (Map No. 20. D. 3).⁹

Search for
sand-buried
ruin.

The dozen men with me were
not enough to cope effectively with
the heavy masses of sand, and the
trial trench cut by them on the
day of arrival at the spot indicated
by 'Abbās failed to reveal any sign
of the reported wall. But it suf-
ficed to show the moisture contained
in the sand lower down and thus to
prepare me for conditions of soil
which soon proved to be distinctly
similar to those I had first en-
countered seven years before at
the great Rawak Stūpa, some 11
miles to the south-east. A large con-
tingent of labourers secured over-
night from Yangi-arik, the nearest
inhabited place 10 miles away to the south, made it possible to continue the search on the morning
of April 9 with increased vigour, and after four hours' digging the top of the reported wall was
found on a level about 12 feet below the crest of the sand ridge.

Excavation was carried on under great difficulties owing to the heavy masses of sand which
continued to pour down (Fig. 321), but by the evening the floor was reached nearly 9 feet below

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