Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . 46. FOOD OFFERINGS TO THE SACRED PIGEONS AT SHRINE OF KUM-RABAT PADSHAHI. 47. MOSQUE AND AVENUE OF POPLARS NEAR EORACHE, KHOTAN. ENTRY INTO THE KINGDOM 165 thither my party was to be conducted. It meant adays delay on the road, but I did not grudge it; for theroute from Zawa to Kara-kash was new to me and provedan excellent sample of all that these rich tracts wateredfrom the Kara-kash river could offer in rural beauty. The whole of the cantons of Kuya, Makuya, Kayashthrough which I rode
Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . 46. FOOD OFFERINGS TO THE SACRED PIGEONS AT SHRINE OF KUM-RABAT PADSHAHI. 47. MOSQUE AND AVENUE OF POPLARS NEAR EORACHE, KHOTAN. ENTRY INTO THE KINGDOM 165 thither my party was to be conducted. It meant adays delay on the road, but I did not grudge it; for theroute from Zawa to Kara-kash was new to me and provedan excellent sample of all that these rich tracts wateredfrom the Kara-kash river could offer in rural beauty. The whole of the cantons of Kuya, Makuya, Kayashthrough which I rode in succession, looked like a big park,with fertile fields to take the place of pastures. The love ofthe Khotanese peasantry for fine avenues to line the roadsand for shady clumps of trees to mark off each small hold-ing, has always appealed to me as a mark of old-establishedcivilization, and the scenery passed on to-days route illus-trated it to perfection (Fig. 47). With every bit of groundintensively cultivated, this concession to the picturesquein rural surroundings seems doubly deserving of road led through thickly populated tracts. Yet soplentiful is th
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