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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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2. CHAKDARA FORT, SWAT VALLEY, SEEN FROM NORTH.
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3. SHIKARAI HAMLET ABOVE DIR, WLIH DIR LEVIES ON ROAD. THROUGH BUDDHIST UDYANA 15 My journey was to take me not only to distant regionsbut also far back in the ages. So it was doubly appropriatethat its first march should lead over ground full of ancientassociations. I knew that in the open fertile valley ofUch, through which I was riding northward, the much-injured ruins of Buddhist Stupas and monasteries weredotting the low spurs, just as at so many points of ancientUdyana along the Swat River. But there was no timenow to revisit them. Soon as the road turned to the west towards theKatgala Pass which divides the Swat and Panjkoradrainage, my eyes were delighted to catch sight again ofthe picturesque ruins of ancient towers and dwellingsrising above the scrub-covered slopes on the left. In theburning afternoon sun they looked, indeed, what theirlocal Pashtu name, Saremanai, derived from the colourof the sandstone material, calls them, the red houses.That a thousand years at least has

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