Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . I06. RUIN OF ANCIENT FORTIFIED POST, NEAR HIGH TAMARISK-COVERED SAND CONE, ENDERE 107. DASTARKHAN OFFERED ON DESERT ROUTE TO left Chiang-ssG-yeh and my caravan-men enjoying the treat brought by Beg from Charchan. CH. XXVII HSUAN-TSANGS DESERT ROUTE 317 beams. The only find rewarding the clearance of it wassome wheat straw embedded in the flooring, a proof thatcultivation was once carried on here. It was of interest,too, to discover that a deeply cut channel took off from theri
Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . I06. RUIN OF ANCIENT FORTIFIED POST, NEAR HIGH TAMARISK-COVERED SAND CONE, ENDERE 107. DASTARKHAN OFFERED ON DESERT ROUTE TO left Chiang-ssG-yeh and my caravan-men enjoying the treat brought by Beg from Charchan. CH. XXVII HSUAN-TSANGS DESERT ROUTE 317 beams. The only find rewarding the clearance of it wassome wheat straw embedded in the flooring, a proof thatcultivation was once carried on here. It was of interest,too, to discover that a deeply cut channel took off from theriver above Korgach and passed through the dense jungleto the north-west. Mihman declared that he had followedit to the vicinity of the abandoned fort village beyond Bilel-konghan, a distance of some eighteen miles. It was late in the evening before I recrossed the riverabove the grazing grounds of Tokuz-kol, and found mycamp pitched amid Toghrak groves and luxuriant Kumushbeds at Kok-jilga-oghil not far from its right bank. Therea mass of urgent correspondence, which needed despatchto Kashgar and India before I started on the long trekeastwards, kept me busy at work all next day. It
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