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RAIL * STTOXn " V?v Tart TREATED ONE REE Typ? of Cart U.eJ In Central Asiatic Land*. (Prepared by Ch? National OeoTaphlc Ho doty. Washington. D. C.J By degrees the veil? lu tills case, 'muny; ftei of sand ? Is belha. drawn jjway from the mysterious region of Central- Asia whence< some authorities assert tame the ancestors of tlje peo ples of all continents. As the sand is dug or blown from ruined cities un'd temples, history Is b$lng pushed fur ther "und farther back and there is be ing disclosed evidences of the high de cree of civilization and culture that existed In this mountain ond desert girt region thousands of years ago. Perhaps the most fascinating .and the most mysterious of these -central Asian regions Is the Lop or Tarlm Basin, north of Tibet, which consti tutes the heart of eastern or ChlneBe Turkestan. The entire central portion of tiie basin Is desert but around its rim between it and% the mountains that almost encircle It, Is a string of oases thht have llfeured prominehtly In his tory. In these oases toda^ are towns whose mimes at least are familiar: Yarkand, Kashgar, Khotnn, and many smaller ones to the north, less known hut locally Important. , It Is only within the last half cen tury1 that the West has become pass ably well acquainted with the Lop basin -, but medieval Europe had Mun chausen-llke tales of the region In the celebrated letters of Prester John, a more or less mythlcul character, who was represented to be a powerful Christian emperor living In central Asia. In one of the letters It Is stated that : "Among .other tilings which ure very wonderful In our country fs a sea of sand without water. ' For the sand moves and swells In waves In the manner of all seas, and Is never still. This sea cannot be crossed either by boat ot by any other method, and of what sort the land may be beyond It no one can know. And although water is absent entirely, nevertheless there are found on the shore on our side many kinds of flsh more delicious and sweet-tasting than are ever seen any where eliye." Other wonders ure re^ lated same region. For In stance: '?."Into the 8ondy sea Itself .flows, three days of the week, a river of stones- without water, Impassable while' Its flow continues. Beyond It lies another river, whose sunds are mere precious stones ; or sometimes this River of Oems flows through the Bandy sea, and Is indeed the Sabbatic river, flowing six days and resting the seventh, which keeps the ten tribes of the Children of Israel from crossing Into the land of Prester John. And In one part of the desert where the sea lies Is a people with round feet, like horses' hpofs; and In another port Is the land of Femeoye Itself." a land where none but women dwell, and they are ".very st^rk and . cruel" : and no man dare bide mo.-e than an hour. Old Talas Not Fmr From Truth. Strange us these stories sound, they are only slight perversions of tlie truth. During u recent visit to the Lop basin facts were observed which may perhups explain ull of them. For Instance, wl on Brst one sees Chinese women of high clusn their diminutive, feet are strangely suggestive of the hoofs of animals. As to the fable of the laud of Femenye, there 13 nothing now to give rise to it directly. Marco Polo relates, however, that In his day in the region of Hnmi. not many hun dred miles from Lop-Nor, none but women were found In the villages when caravans arrived. The men de parted in order that the travelers might he more comfortable, and might be the more ready to pay for enter tainment. Even today the people of Haml possess customs which seem to be a reminiscence of the ancient hahlt. The Lop basin. In the very center of Asia, Is a great depression. 14.UOO j miles long from east to west and 4O0 I wide. Around It lies a ring of lofty I plateaus from 10,000 to 20,000 fe-t | ,blgh. At their bnse Is -a ring of plei- i mont gravel, almost destitute of life, { and sloping gently Inwft'wllke a huge beach 'from 5 to 40 mUo?-?'ide. Then comes another the tor.c -f vej '*s tlon. whore alone there are plant* and an opportunity for human inhabitants other than the few "nomads of the plateaus. Finally within the son? of vegetation lies a vast desert nren about 1.000 miles long and 2.">0 wide. Its western three-quafers consist of a i-prttnhle son of sstitl. the Takln Kaknn desert, yellow or jrfly on the edses pink In tin- Inner portions Row ?f!or row of almost Impassable ?ind dune? has been plied np by the wind t" Heights of fu'l V>0 feet In plnres The smallest dunes offcte move forward hundreds of feet In a year In the dl r?t;^lon of the prevailing winds; the largest scarcely move at all. The saudi Is most beuutlful, with Its grace ful swdeqf'of wuvy dunes and ripples, hut the natives hate anyl fear It. It ' hai proved 'the grave of tnpny a na tive., gong" jnad with tlilrst In the vain search for . the gold supposed to lie hidden hi. sand-burled ruins. A 16 w rivers flow Into the desert of Takla-Makan. Most of them soon wither to 'pothlng. All are very vari able, and some, such as the Vash SUerl, flow In raging, Impassable tor rents during sunny weather In sum mer, but dry up when cloudy days among the mountains prevent the melt* Ing of -snow. ? The dry bed# of these "Sabbatic" streams form veritable "rivers of stones." Lii certain cases one might almost say with the old ihronlcler that there are streams "whose sands are mere precious stones.'" When the Khotan and Kerlya rlyers are low, crowds of natives go out from the oases to dig In the gravel of the river bed for Jude, one of the most highly prized of Chinese precious stones. Gold also Is found In the up per parts <5f the beds of the Kerlya and other rivers. Ssa of 8alt Is a Marsh. East of the Sea of Sand there lies a Sen of Salt, the bed of the ancient Lake of Lop-Nor. Today the lake Is merely a marsh, fed by the Taring river, and filled with huge reeds 12 to 15 feet high. Near the mouth of the river, where alone the water Is fresh enough to support life, the Lop llks have planted their villages of reeds. Formerly, according to their own account, they lived wholly on flsh and birds caught In the opeu lanes and pools of the swamp, where the. fisher men still paddle their canoes of hol lowed poplar. They cannot go far to the east, for there the swamp grows more and more sullne, until finally It merges Into a great 'plain of salt, the bed of the expanded lake of former times. The old bed of Lop-Nor Is one of tlie most absolute deserts in the world. Even the hardy natives never venture Into it. For five dayn a caravan of Western explorers recently stumbled wearily over n sea of rock salt broken Into huge polygons 10 or 12 feet In diameter, which had buckled up around the edges to a height of from one to three feet. It was like the choppiest , sort of sea , frozen solid. When what appeared to be soft places were selected In which to pitch tents, the Irou tent pegs bent double. For 00 miles north and south and for near ly 200 east and west there Is abso lutely not a sign of any living thing. It Is relatively but a little while since Lop-Nor was much larger than now and expanded to such a size that most, if not all, of the old bed was covered by water, as Is proved by the location of ancient roads and beaches. At the time of Christ, the lake ap pears to have been of larse dimensions. Then It diminished In size, and abont Ave centuries later was probably as small or smaller than It now Is. Ij?ter It expanded, and with varying fluctua tions remulned comparatively large nnttt about 1000 A. D. Now It has once more diminished, an'l the people who formerly were supported by It have largely died off. A century or two ngo they used to carry flsli two or three hundred miles eastward to the Chinese cities where Nestorlan Chris tians lived In the days of Marco Polo and earlier. Now the deneri has be come so rigorous and the flsh have so decreased In number thnt the traffic has been given up. The writer of the letters of Prester John was almost rlzlit when he said that tisli were pro cured from the Sea of Sand. They certainly came from the bonier be tween It anil the Sea of Suit. In the last few years Important finds have been made among the rufns of temples and cities In the cdze of the deserts of Chinese Turkestan, over which sand has drifted. Caves, too. have been found In cliflfs rimming the In which are c'.almrately carved ar.il decorated shrines The 1 evidence so far uncovered Indicates thnt the people who Ihed In the conn try before the Christian ^rn had tnd.> j "arnpoan languages and so lire r:o?e'> ' connected with Europeans. 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