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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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l6. OXUS VALLEY NEAR SARHAT), WITH RANGE TOWARDS GREAT PAMIR, SEEN FROM KANSIR SIUR. The fields of Sarhad on alluvial terrace above right river bank.
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17. VILLAGERS OF BUNI, MASrUJ, WITH KHAN SAHIB PIR BAKHSH AND KURBAN ON EXTREME RIGHT. WITH THE CHITRAL SCOUTS 45 carvings with reverent awe and to protect them by theconstruction of a rude hut. The days march was made pleasant at intervals byvillages charmingly situated on alluvial fans in the courseof the rock-bound valley. Buni, with over a hundredhouses, is the largest of them, and looked most invitingwith its apricot and other fruit trees still in bloom. Adeputation of grey-beards received me at the first fieldswith an offering of well-preserved pears (Fig. 17). Icontented myself with touching and remitting this present—rare at this season—only to succumb to the tempta-tion of buying the same fruits when we had riddenon a short distance, as the last I was likely to see formonths. Through the pretty hamlets of Avi, Mem, Miragram,all ensconced by the side of glacier-fed rivulets which rushdown from the sides of the hoary Buni-zom Peak, over21,000 feet high, I reached in the aft

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