Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . ll ground which had escapederosion, and thus could be supposed to retain debris ofbuildings, was a big task. It took the unremitting labourof ten days to accomplish it, though we worked with alarge number of diggers and in spite of heat and smotheringdust practically without interruption from daybreak untilnightfall. For many years past I had not felt so thoroughlytired evening after evening. But success kept my spiritsrefreshed, and my eagerness to move on eastwards tosites farther away in the
Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . ll ground which had escapederosion, and thus could be supposed to retain debris ofbuildings, was a big task. It took the unremitting labourof ten days to accomplish it, though we worked with alarge number of diggers and in spite of heat and smotheringdust practically without interruption from daybreak untilnightfall. For many years past I had not felt so thoroughlytired evening after evening. But success kept my spiritsrefreshed, and my eagerness to move on eastwards tosites farther away in the desert and hence likely to havebeen abandoned far earlier urged me to additional the end I felt doubly glad that I had spared at the outsetthe time and labour for Khadalik ; for, when nearly eighteenmonths later I returned to this tract, I found that the areacontaining the ruins had, after long centuries, again beenbrought under irrigation from the stream, the vicinity ofwhich had been such a boon to us all during those longhot days of hard labour—and their destruction 79- WOODEN COLUMN WITH MOULDINGS EXCAVATED IN ROOM NEAR MAIN SHRINE, and Ibrahim Beg in background supervising diggers ; Roze Akhun on right. ,^-\W
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