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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
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idering our late start from Chakdara, the march toSarai, the usual first halting-place, would have been enoughfor the day. But good reasons had decided me to push onto the Lowarai by double marches. It was getting ontowards 5 p.m. when we passed the Levy fort of Sarai; yetI could not forgo my intention of using what remained ofthe day for my first piece of archaeological survey work. Atthe hamlet of Gumbat, some two miles to the south-west ofSarai, I had found in 1897 the comparatively well-preservedruin of an old Hindu temple, closely resembling in planand style shrines I had, in times gone by, surveyed in theSalt Range of the Punjab. There had been no time thento effect a proper survey, and now, too, Fate willed thatthe work had to be done in a hurry. Luckily, Naik RamSingh was now riding along to assist me. As our ponies scrambled up the terraced slopes of thehillside, along the lively little stream which spreads fertilityhere near the grove of Jalal Baba Bukharis Ziarat, it amused
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