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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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but the rarity of dead wood continued so extremeas to cause us a good deal of anxiety. The few fragmentswe discovered here and there were so completely shrivelledup and decayed that it was quite impossible to determinefrom what trees they had come or where these might havegrown. It was a great relief when, after more than halfof the days weary tramp was done without yielding fuel,we came upon a few armfuls of much-perished tamariskroots on a patch of hard gypsum. This just sufficed tosave us from a camp without warm drink or food. It wasnot a cheerful spot where darkness obliged us to halt atthe foot of a big Dawan, and the night, with a perfectlyclear star-lit sky, proved the coldest of the winter. Theminimum temperature dropped to 48 degrees Fahrenheitbelow freezing-point; yet we had to do- without a fire towarm us after ice had been melted for tea and for thesimplest cooking. Next morning we sacrificed a couple of packing*Shotas from the camels gear to get tea and a little warmth,
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128. DAWAN OR RIDGE OF DUNES, RISING TO ABOUT FIFTY FEET, LOP-N OR DESERT.

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