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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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roads east and west became blocked by robbers.For safety she was placed by her escort on an isolatedmountain peak protected by precipitous cliffs. But therethe well-guarded princess received visits from the sun-god,and, being found enceinte when the road became again open,was induced by her escort to remain in Sarikol and toestablish her reign there. From her miraculously bornson the chiefs ruling that mountain region were supposedto have sprung. Already in 1900 I had heard, but too late for a visit,of remains of ancient walls perched on precipitous cliffs onthe left bank of the Taghdumbash river near the bendalready referred to. A story commonly known to Sari-kolis and Kirghiz that King Naushirwan, an ancientPersian ruler, had once placed his daughter there forsafety, clings to the ruins and accounts for their populardesignation, * Kiz-kurghan, meaning in Turki * the towerof the princess. This story was plainly a genuine relicof the fuller tradition current in Hsiian-tsangs days, and
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2,2. WATCH-STATION AT FOOT OF MINTAKA PASS WITH SARIKOLIS.

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