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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heir two months journey toKashgar (Fig. 150). To get my own caravan ready for the long desertcrossing cost simultaneous and quite as great efforts. It istrue that after our expedition of December my men werenot apt to think much of the weeks in * the Gobi ahead ofus, when they heard that water and some sort of precariousgrazing were available along the greater part of the route.But the provision of a months supplies for men and animalswas a big job, and still more the arrangements for theirtransport. My united party counted in all thirteen persons,eleven ponies for mounts, and eight camels. The latter,fit again after all the hardships of the Lop-nor Desert, and,as always, the mainstay of my caravan, would just sufficeto carry our baggage and a part of our food stores.They themselves—brave, frugal beasts—needed nothingexcept a few skinfuls of rape-seed oil to serve for anoccasional smack of that * camels tea, as Hassan Akhunused to say, which was to keep up their stamina. But the I
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149- SPRING OF LOWAZA WITH ICE SHEET AT FOOT OF OLD LAKE SHORE AND VIEWNORTH-EASTWARDS ACROSS SALT-ENCRUSTED LOP-NOR BED.

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