Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . 82. KHOTAN PILGRIMS RETURNING FROM IMAM JafAR SADIKs S3. ROW OF DEAD MULBERRY TREES IN ANCIENT ORCHARD NEAR RUIN N. XVIII. NIYA first tree Naik Ram Singh with Dash ; to left a sand-cone with dead tamarisk. CHAPTER XXIII AT THE NIYA SITE RUINS On the morning of October 20th we left behind the lastabode of the living, and also the present end of the NiyaRiver. Five camels carried the first supply of water formy column, counting in all over fifty labourers. I wasbent upon moving
Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . 82. KHOTAN PILGRIMS RETURNING FROM IMAM JafAR SADIKs S3. ROW OF DEAD MULBERRY TREES IN ANCIENT ORCHARD NEAR RUIN N. XVIII. NIYA first tree Naik Ram Singh with Dash ; to left a sand-cone with dead tamarisk. CHAPTER XXIII AT THE NIYA SITE RUINS On the morning of October 20th we left behind the lastabode of the living, and also the present end of the NiyaRiver. Five camels carried the first supply of water formy column, counting in all over fifty labourers. I wasbent upon moving that day as far as possible ahead towardsthe ancient site to which my thoughts had turned so oftensince those happy days of labour in the winter of unexpected finds en route delayed my arrival at theruins which had then served as familiar landmarks. I hadjust passed, some five miles beyond Tiilkiich-kol, the lastdeserted shepherds hut in the gradually thinning jungle,when Ibrahim and his fellow-guides suddenly told me ofsome remains they had discovered since my visit amongthe high tamarisk-crowned sand-hills east of the route. On reaching the hi
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