Part 8 (2/2)
”more like a log”: Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 1, p 24.
”incapable of facing prolonged hard travel”: ibid., vol 1, p 9.
”Sadiq now in Chinese prison”: Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Stein MS 3, Macartney telegram, April 10, 1906.
CHAPTER 2: SIGNS OF WONDER.
”I wonder whether you have seen”: Bodleian, Stein MS 90, John Lockwood Kipling to Stein, May 16, 1902.
”It was a melancholy duty”: Aurel Stein, Ancient Khotan, vol 1, p 502.
”A great many of the grottos”: Bodleian, Stein MS 294, application of September 14, 1904.
”It seems scarcely possible”: ibid.
”The wide-spread interest”: ibid.
”center of intellectual suns.h.i.+ne”: Jeannette Mirsky, Sir Aurel Stein: Archaeological explorer, p 210.
”A bold demand”: ibid., p 212.
”Rejoice”: ibid., p 217.
CHAPTER 3: THE LISTENING POST.
”There is a piece of news”: Bodleian, Stein MS 96, Macartney to Stein, January 20, 1905.
”another poacher on your preserves”: Bodleian, Stein MS 296, Macartney to Stein, October 16, 1905.
”The sooner you are on the field”: ibid.
”The absence of the Professor”: ibid., October 19, 1905. Extract from Macartney's confidential report dated October 18, 1905.
”There is a good deal”: ibid., November 10, 1905.
”Good morning, old fat-head”: Albert von Le Coq, Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan, p 76.
”I have never believed”: Bodleian, Stein MS 297, Stein to Macartney, February 6, 1906.
”Grnwedel is ill”: Bodleian, Stein MS 296, Macartney to Stein, December 29, 1905.
”My own plan now”: Bodleian, Stein MS 3, Stein to Allen, January 20, 1906.
”The true race”: ibid., January 6, 1906.
”the most timid, unenterprising girl”: Lady (Catherine) Macartney, An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan, p 2.
”living newspaper”: Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 1, p 122.
”Wolves, leopards, and foxes”: Catherine Macartney, An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan, p 40.
”Baby had three falls”: Bodleian, Stein MS 96, Macartney to Stein, May 7, 1904.
”They tell me”: Catherine Macartney, An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan, p 38.
”I sometimes suspected”: ibid., p 131.
”easy-going slackness”: Bodleian, Stein MS 3, Stein to Allen, June 25, 1906.
”It cost great efforts”: ibid.
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”inordinate addiction to opium”: Aurel Stein, Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan, p 116.
”captivating Khotan damsel”: ibid., p 466.
”shrivelled up with the cold”: Bodleian, Stein MS 3, Stein to Allen, June 2, 1906.
”a hardy plant”: Bodleian, Stein MS 37, Stein to Andrews, January 31, 1907.
”lively ways”: Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 1, p 116.
”They may turn up”: Bodleian, Stein MS 3, Stein to Allen, June 19, 1906.
”The rush past”: ibid.
”a cave by the seash.o.r.e”: Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 1, p 124.
CHAPTER 4: THE MOON AND THE MAIL.
”One may invade the house”: Aurel Stein, Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan, p 184.
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