 | Xuanzang - Asia, Central - 1906
...guard of his eastern frontier. Going east from this, we enter a great drifting sand desert. These sands extend like a drifting flood for a great distance, piled up or scattered according to the wind. There is no trace left behind by travellers, and 72 For an account of sand-buried... | |
 | Ella Constance Sykes, Sir Percy Sykes - Asia, Central - 1920 - 462 pages
...cities. The description of Hiuen Tsiang, the great Chinese traveller, is worth quoting : " These sands extend like a drifting flood for a great distance,...quite bewildered, without any guide or direction. There is neither water nor herbage to be found, and hot winds frequently blow. When these winds rise,... | |
 | Samuel Beal - Religion - 2000 - 384 pages
...guard of his eastern frontier. Going east from this, we enter a great drifting saml desert. These sands extend like a drifting flood for a great distance, piled up or scattered according to the wind. There is no trace left behind by travellers, and 79 For an account of Band-buried... | |
 | Kathy Sammis - Education - 2002 - 158 pages
...the surface Going east, we enter a great drifting sand desert [the Taklamakan Desert]. These sands extend like a drifting flood for a great distance, piled up or scattered as the wind dictates. Travelers leave no trace of a path behind them; they often lose their way and... | |
 | Sally Wriggins - Religion - 2004 - 348 pages
...in the Taklamakan Desert. Going east from this, we enter a great drifting sand desert. These sands extend like a drifting flood for a great distance, piled up or scattered according to the wind. There is no trace left behind by travellers . . . and oftentimes the way is... | |
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Going east from this, we enter a great drifting sand desert. These sands extend like a drifting flood for a great distance, piled up or scattered according to the wind. There is no trace left behind by travellers, and cities, and particularly of Katak,... 