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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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to which by hard work I had establisheda scholarly claim. It may be weakness and vanity, but itpleased me to see how well I was still remembered through-out the oasis. The Amban had passed the town In themorning, having been obliged to proceed to a village ofthe Zawa canton for urgent investigation of a murder case.Though he was expected to return for the night, nothingwould do for the accommodation of the Ulugh Mihman,my humble self, but the recently constructed officialresidence of the Amban, a kind of Sessions House, to usethe Anglo-Indian term. So to it I had to proceed, though.If a choice had been possible without causing much trouble,I should have greatly preferred to take up my quartersagain in the quiet country house of my old host of 1901,Karim Akhun Beg. My misgivings were justified ; for when I entered thelarge Ya-men-like building at the meeting of three finepoplar-lined roads just outside the west gate of Kara-kash,I found that the building operations which were needed to
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48. ENTRANCE TO BAZAR OF BORACHE, KHOTAN OASIS.

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