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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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25. KIRGHIZ SHIFTING FELT TENT AT GUMBAZ-OTEK.
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26. AFGHAN ESCORT WITH BAGGAGE PREPARING TO CROSS BAHARAK STREAM.Colonel Shirin-dil Khan on extreme right. cH.vii TRYING GORGE OF OXUS 75 us. Our poor baggage animals needed it badly ; for thefatigues of the previous marches had almost exhaustedthem, and the bleak exposed plain over 12,000 feet abovethe sea, on which the snow had only just melted, offeredneither grazing nor shelter. CHAPTER VIII TO THE SOURCE OF THE OXUS There could be no doubt about our now nearing thePamirs when, after a cold night with the thermometer sink-ing to a minimum of 25 degrees below freezing-point, westarted across stony and partly marshy ground for the lowsaddle known as Dasht-i-Mirza Murad. By crossing it theroute cuts off a southern bend of the now much broadenedOxus Valley. A ten miles ride over alluvial plateaus stillretaining snow in great patches brought us to a low spurfrom which I first sighted north-eastwards the rollingdowns of the Little Pamir. In the clear air of this highelevation our days g

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