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

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2,2. WATCH-STATION AT FOOT OF MINTAKA PASS WITH SARIKOLIS.
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33. HUNZA DAK RUNNERS (ON LEFT) AND SAKIKOLI FRONTIER GUARDS,WITH THEIR CHILDREN, AT MINTAKA KARAUL. cH.ix THE TOWER OF THE PRINCESS 91. consequently I was eager to survey the site and the ruinswhere it is still localized. Kiz-kurghan proved to be situated on the extremeeastern end of a rugged high spur which descends fromthe north-west to the river exactly at the entrance of thenarrow defile extending from Ghujakbai to Dafdar. Theend of the spur as we approached it from the south bythe steep river bank, presents an almost isolated rock pro-montory falling away in nearly perpendicular cliffs on thesouth and east, and raising its top ridge some 700 feetabove the Taghdumbash river. Our subsequent surveyshowed that equally unscalable rock walls protect it onthe north and west towards the narrow and wildly twistingvalley known as Kiz-kurghan Jilga. Only from the south-west a low and narrow neckconnects this frowning rock fastness with the spur behindit, and to that I climbed up with Surve

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