Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . 134. SOUTH-EAST CORNER OF INTERIOR OF MIRAN FORT, IN COURSE OF 135. CAMP BELOW WALLS OF RUINED FORT, MIRAN,On right of Chiang-ssu-yehs tent a Mongol visitor (see page 467). CH. XXXVIII TIBETAN RECORDS DISCOVERED 441 But the paper was of a peculiarly flimsy kind, fit for writingonly on one side. These peculiarities and the predominant use made ofwooden stationery at that relatively late date suggestedthat paper must have been difficult to obtain, the supplynot being local. This concl
Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . 134. SOUTH-EAST CORNER OF INTERIOR OF MIRAN FORT, IN COURSE OF 135. CAMP BELOW WALLS OF RUINED FORT, MIRAN,On right of Chiang-ssu-yehs tent a Mongol visitor (see page 467). CH. XXXVIII TIBETAN RECORDS DISCOVERED 441 But the paper was of a peculiarly flimsy kind, fit for writingonly on one side. These peculiarities and the predominant use made ofwooden stationery at that relatively late date suggestedthat paper must have been difficult to obtain, the supplynot being local. This conclusion was strengthened bycomparison with the rarer sheets of well-made strongpaper, manifestly of a different substance, which by theirregular big writing, the ample space between lines, andthe string-holes, could be recognized at once as leavesfrom Pothis containing canonical texts or prayers. Ithought of how similar leaves discovered by me in 1901in the fort of Endere as relics of the Tibetan occupationhad, on Professor Wiesners microscopical analysis, provedto be made of paper for which the fibres of the Daphneplant, quite unknown in the Tarim Basin, had supplied th
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