Adventure, sport and travel on the Tibetan steppes . m the main verandah. The one on the right is usually about thirty feet long and straight, and was evidently intended for servants or animals. These caves generally had an outer and an inner doorway, the first a few feet from the entrance, the second about twelve feet further in. The caves were about six feet broad and six feet high, and sloped gently upwards. The doors were solid buttresses, left when the caves were cut, and were about five feet six inches high by four feet wide ; in these buttresses were grooves to hold doors, and sockets a
Adventure, sport and travel on the Tibetan steppes . m the main verandah. The one on the right is usually about thirty feet long and straight, and was evidently intended for servants or animals. These caves generally had an outer and an inner doorway, the first a few feet from the entrance, the second about twelve feet further in. The caves were about six feet broad and six feet high, and sloped gently upwards. The doors were solid buttresses, left when the caves were cut, and were about five feet six inches high by four feet wide ; in these buttresses were grooves to hold doors, and sockets and grooves to hold crossbars. The two larger caves had two or three similar doors, 272 The Caves of West China. About half-way along the larger caves were recessescut in the walls. On one side was a large trough cut in thesolid rock and evidently used for holding water. A smallgutter was cut round it to carry off surplus water and theedge was much worn. Below it was a shelf for holding some of these troughs were round stones which had signs. INTERPRETER COMING OUT OK THE CAVK WHKKEriGMIES WERE OBTAINED. ,RkA-COTTA of being constantly heated in a lire. On the other side ofthe cave would be a similar cave, covered with a huge monolithwhich would take ten men to move, and inside some of thesesarcophagi were coffins made of one piece of earthenware,with tight-fitting covers. These coffins were all empty,except for a little mould. Further in were small sockets (11243) -73 T sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes. near the roof, which had evidently bten used for poles tosupport a curtain, and past this the cave generally openedout into one or two recesses large enough for rooms ; thesealso had sockets for curtains. At the extreme end of the caves was a small shelf two anda-half feet from the floor, and two or three small cooking placescut out of the sohd rock at a lower level beside it. Near thesecooking places were the remains of cooking pots, which fittedthe firep
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