File:Ruins of desert Cathay - personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China (1912) (14596472008).jpg

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
Subjects:
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
g-place at Chihil-gumbaz.Apart from a number of ruined Kirghiz tombs whichaccount for the name * Forty Domes, the valley bottomshelters a few fields of oats. Leaving the route toYarkand which here branches off south-eastwards, weascended on the morning of June 6th to the long-stretchedridges of the Kashka-su Dawan (Fig. 36). Thickly coveredwith loess and in parts quite of down-like appearance, theseridges, in spite of their elevation of probably close on13,000 feet, seemed to offer excellent grazing, the mostextensive I had yet seen on the rims of the TarimBasin. I was delighted to greet familiar flowers again,small white daffodils and a hardy sort of iris common inKashmir. Glorious was the wide view to the south reachingthe high snowy range between the Tash-kurghan andZarafshan rivers, those two great feeders of the Tarim.But there lay fascination for me also over the far lessimposing vista which spread out east and north-eastwards.A succession of absolutely barren transverse ridges.
Text Appearing After Image:
36. OUR TRAIN OF YAKS AND PONIES CROSSING THE KASHKA-SU DAWAN. VIEW TO SOUTH.

Note About Images