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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
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thy Khan Sahib Pir Bakhsh,who with the official status of Hospital Assistant of Mastujcombines the functions of adviser and guide to the Governorof the territory (Fig. i8). Twelve years of continuousresidence in these mountains have made this pleasantPunjabi familiar with almost every one of the thousandodd households which make up the population of theMastuj or Khushwakte chiefship, as it is generally knownfrom the race of its hereditary rulers. So my ride to Mastuj on May nth gave ample chancefor collecting useful local information. The morning hourswere spent in taking copies and photographs of a Sanskritinscription and a rock-carved Stupa representation closelyresembling those of Pakhturinidini. The large boulderon which both are engraved was brought to light in afield near Charrun only some eight years ago. Yet thelingering recollection of an earlier worship was still strongenough to induce the villagers, good Muhammadans asthey have been for centuries, to treat the infidel rock-
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l6. OXUS VALLEY NEAR SARHAT), WITH RANGE TOWARDS GREAT PAMIR, SEEN FROM KANSIR SIUR. The fields of Sarhad on alluvial terrace above right river bank.

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