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VIII. A short Account of the Origin, Journey, and Results of the First Royal Prussian (second German) Expedition to Turfan in Chinese Turkistan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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The first modern traveller to enter the oasis of Turfan was a German botanist in the service of Russia. Dr. A. Regel. His account of the ancient sites he had visited in 1879 appeared in Petermanns Mittheilungen, but, owing to the description of the obstacles encountered, the expedition failed to produce any practical results beyond furnishing the proof that substantial and most remarkable ruins and other remains were still existent in that distant land.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , April 1909 , pp. 299 - 322
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1909

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page 299 note 1 Petermanns Mittheilungen, 1879, Heft x, xi;Google Scholar 1880, Heft vi; 1881, Heft x. Gotha, J. Perthes.

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page 302 note 1 Thus the Russians call it. My Turki munshi wrote and spoke “Chörchak” which means a tale, but also a pan or flat basin. The word, may, however, have its etymology in Mongolian.

page 307 note 1 This miniature has recently been published at the Reichsdruokerei, Berlin.

page 309 note 1 The “Sengim-A'uz” of the Russians.

page 311 note 1 Kuchā is the correct form, not Kuchar; for the origin of the r see Professor M. Hartmann's “Chinesisch-Turkistan”, Gebauer-Sohwetschke Verlag, Halle a/S., 1908, S. 87, note 46.

page 313 note 1 Cf. Grünwedel, Idikutschari, figs. 72 and 141.

page 314 note 1 A map of this district is given in Mr. Ellsworth Huntington's book The Pulse of Asia (London, A. Constable & Co., 1907), p. 297.Google Scholar Chiqqan Köl lies in the triangle formed by the confluence of the Murtuq and Sängim streams.

page 315 note 1 Fig. 128 in Grunwedel's Idikutschari gives the plan of a temple very similar to the one whose paintings are here described.

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