Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . ng them had previousexperience of such work, while the number of ruins to besearched was relatively large. Thus from the first it wasclear that a thorough exploration of the site by an archaeo-logist was needed in the interest of science. But whocould feel sure in advance of how much a site thus researched would still yield in new facts, observations,and * finds ? Chance would have it that the very first ruin on whichI set my men gave cause for encouraging hopes. It wasthe remnant of a house onc
Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . ng them had previousexperience of such work, while the number of ruins to besearched was relatively large. Thus from the first it wasclear that a thorough exploration of the site by an archaeo-logist was needed in the interest of science. But whocould feel sure in advance of how much a site thus researched would still yield in new facts, observations,and * finds ? Chance would have it that the very first ruin on whichI set my men gave cause for encouraging hopes. It wasthe remnant of a house once manifestly much larger,occupying the top of a small and steeply eroded terracedue south of the Stupa and only some fifty yards off(Fig. 115). Four rooms, including one over thirty feetlong, could still be clearly made out by the broken walls,built of timber and wattle exactly as at the Niya debris of timber strewing the slopes of the terrace,especially to the east and the south, marked the positionswhere other parts of the building had once stood, and where ^ * •?, 4 * ^.
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