Identifier: ruinsofdesertcat01stei (find matches)
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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with other old confreres to collect from thedesert similar antiquarian indications which might beuseful for the start of my autumn campaign. The great heat during my stay at Khotan clearlydemonstrated the impossibility of work in the desert atthis season. So as soon as I had arranged for the treasure-seekers reconnaissances I felt free to set outfor the mountains. My zealous Chinese secretary couldnot be of any help in a region where human beings areexceedingly scarce and things Chinese altogether unknown;so I left him to freedom and comfort at Khotan. I alsolightened our impedimenta by handing over to BadruddinKhans care all equipment not immediately needed. Inorder to maintain the connection with Ram Singhs recentsurveys about Pusha it was advisable to start workfrom the mountains near Nissa; and to reach this smallAlpine settlement the only available route was the oneI had followed in November 1900, on my way down tothe plains. On the morning of August i ith we started for Langhru,
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53- TESTING RAFT OF INFLATED SKINS ON A TANK OF NAR-BAGH.

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