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Title: Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Stein, Aurel, Sir, 1862-1943 Archaeological Survey of India
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Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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f these rubbish deposits continued duringpart of the second day of my stay, but even before it wasfinished the number of available men had enabled me tocommence the excavation of the chain of smaller ruinsstretching south, Naik Ram Singh supervising. When Iwas free to bring the whole of my men to this task theprogress was as rapid as I could wish. Some of thedwellings had suffered a good deal from erosion, andwithin their broken walls but little sand had accumulated.Others had been better protected, and the clearing of thehigh sand which filled their rooms, in one or two instancesto the very ceiling, cost efforts (Fig. 88). But the menwielded their Ketmans with surprising perseverance, andIbrahim Begs rough-humoured exhortations, together withthe encouragement of small rewards paid for the first findsof value in each structure, sufficed to keep them hard atwork for ten to eleven hours daily. The making of exactplans and the record of all observations and finds held mebusy even longer.
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87. RUIN OF SAND-BURIED DWELLING, N. XX., NEAR NORTHERN END OF NIYA SITE, BEFORE EXCAVATION.Trunks of dead mulberry trees in foreground.

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