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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
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i:t ,/ J %. cH.xvir RETURN TO KHOTAN OASIS 213 So I had to follow its right bank through the fertile Beg-ship of Yurung-kash, past Chalmia, Altila and an unbrokensuccession of flourishing villages, before I could cross toKhotan at the usual ferry place and seek quiet shelter forthe fresh work before me. CHAPTER XVIII A FEAST AT KHOTAN My Khotan camp had been pitched in old Akhun Begssuburban garden, which before in the autumn of 1900 hadoffered me peace and shelter since gratefully remembered.But the absence of my host sadly dimmed my pleasure atthis renewed hospitality. Already during my visit inAugust the most genial of my Khotan friends had talked ofhis intention to proceed on the Mecca pilgrimage. Seeinghow little fitted for such a trying journey the aged gentle-man looked, with his asthma of yore increased and also hisportly form, I had done my best to dissuade him. Toconfess the truth, I had refused to take seriously the worthyold Begs eagerness to earn such saintly merits ; for

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