Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . e last king of Khotan, Habibullah the Haji, in1864-66 had thought to ward off all invasion. In the Bazarclose by all looked gay and cheerful, just as when Ihad bid farewell here to honest old Turdi, my desertguide,—as Fate willed it, for ever. For over two yearsnow the old treasure-seeker had gone to his rest,alas! from the prison gate. The absence of his familiarfigure was the only shadow cast on this bright day. At Zawa I found the neat little official rest-house by theroad-side gaily decked w
Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . e last king of Khotan, Habibullah the Haji, in1864-66 had thought to ward off all invasion. In the Bazarclose by all looked gay and cheerful, just as when Ihad bid farewell here to honest old Turdi, my desertguide,—as Fate willed it, for ever. For over two yearsnow the old treasure-seeker had gone to his rest,alas! from the prison gate. The absence of his familiarfigure was the only shadow cast on this bright day. At Zawa I found the neat little official rest-house by theroad-side gaily decked with red cloth, and refreshing tea andfruit ready on the raised central platform of the evidence, too, of the Ambans attention came in theform of pony-loads of fodder for my animals and provisionsfor myself, offered as a special sign of regard at my entranceinto the district. The Kara-kash River, now swollen by themelting snows, could not be crossed on the high road thatleads straight to Khotan town. Boats were to be foundonly at Kara-kash town, some ten miles farther down, and. 46. FOOD OFFERINGS TO THE SACRED PIGEONS AT SHRINE OF KUM-RABAT PADSHAHI
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