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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY JANUARY 21 1909.

Intimations. CHINESE

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BAZAAR

THE WESTERN KINGDOMS

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RECENT KXPLORATION. Daring the past century the deserts of Egypt have yielded countless treasures" to the arcba slogist, and have shown clearly saduga that sand is the great preserver of the records which of antiquity. But it is not avery, desen marks the site of pu extinct civilisation, and only in rare instances does it pay to plough the 78, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL desert sands Egypt is one of them, and Chi

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Exhibition of CHINESE PAINTINGS, EMBROIDERIES, OLD CHINA, STATUETTES, PORCELAIN GOODS, ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS,

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SHOW OPEN

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to

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p.m. to 10 p.m. Hongkong, 11th January, 1909. 172

INTERNATIONAL SLEEPING VAR

nese Turkeman has proved in the last twenty

‹ years to be another.

arve, to fertilen tho ura fost in the southern

is dotted with rges to the apfen sind, civilisation. Near the prefent town is the site of the a cleat city of Tuilan.

Super

The Chinese zonals tell us that in the Second Ceplay pelate Chaist there liyed in the Westers Kingdoms à race of çi y-builders who set up cinkab ving forty-6v. walls; a paw.fel peuple who dug for gold and iron, corting to the sunals the people who dwelt on the southern beers of the Great Derest in the region about Sache came upon them, subdued them, and then spread westward through the valleys which acheion the Tian Shas, out upon the plynof Weitem Terkesian, Thence they mui bave descended upon Bactria tnd fouaded

au hornithis period telusthat the people of the the great Inda-Seyilian Empie Chinese Westerb Kingdoms h b'onde hal- and blue yes, an expression, very suggestive of En open affinities. The presence of a Scythian population in the e kingdoms of Central Asia has now been amply proved, in Turfan Dr. cog found Inscriptions written in Brahmic characters sufficient to show that the language of the period was of indo-Europe z origin. Hence the peoples of Chineas Turkestar two centuries before Christ were apparently of Scythian race and European affinities. Indeed,

see Tork of the early Arab, writers would seem to have been neither more nor less than "brinad, Scythians," as Dr. Lecng has called them. Dusing the first five centuries of the Christian or other invasions followed from the Was The Huss, or Hafeznu as the Chinese called them, were followed by various races of Turks, who in turn subdued the laud.

Intimations.

A FAIR EXCHANGR Large sums of money are no doubt, realized from simple speculation, but the graif fortunes. are derived from legitimate and honest business where the goods furnished are worth the price they bring. Certain famous business men have accumulated their millions wholly in this way. Prompt and faithful in every con tract or engagement they enjoy the confidence of the public and command a class of trade that is refused to unstable or tricky competitors. In the long run it does not pay to cheat or deceive others. Even a child or a dog woon isards to distinguish between real friends and foes in disguise. A humbug may be, advertised with noise like the blowing of a thousand trumpets, but it is som detected and exposed. The manufacturers of

#WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION bave always acted on very different principies Before offering it to the public they first made sure of its merits. Then, and then only, did de mame appear in print. People were assured of what it would do, and found the statemen truthful Today they believe in it as we al belleve in the word of a tried and trusted friend It is palatable as honey and contains all the

fritive and curative properties of Furs Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers. combined with the Compound Syrup of

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purities from the blood and cures Anemia Scrofula, Debility, Infiuenta, Throat and Lung Troubles, and Wasting Complaints. Dr. Louis W. Bishop says: "I take pleasure in saying I have found it a most efficient preparation, em bodying all of the medicinal properties of a pure cod liver oil in a most palatable form, 1 stands in the front rank in the march of medl. cins. It is a scientific remedy and a food, with delicious taste and flavour. No slow or doubtful action. It cannot disappoint you Sold by all chemists.

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All Claims must be presented within fifteen days of the steamer's Arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognized, AT

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PORT SAID, SUEZ AND STRAITS; Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being lauded, and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf, and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consigament will be sorted out mark by mark, and delivery, can be obtained as soon as “the Goods are landed, a

Optional Goods will be landed kore unless

"Turkestan is the hollow which divides the great Tibetan tableland from that of Siberis Ohled sides is bounded by almost impas able mountains, and on the other the all-if opens on the great Desert of Gobi. From the "mountain ranges to north, in south, and to west flow down considerable sivery, which disappear and are lost in the deser!which fills the great barin below. It is as if the sands of Gobi were an immenas ocean overflowing into a bay sing. ed round with mountains. Below the foothills along the edge of the desest, the rivers can be controlled and turned aside to water the land before they flow out to be lost in the desert, Thus it comes that at the issuing of every river on the plain there'fik-an-oasis, often a small country in wall Butin course of time the skode shift and the rivers change their courses Then these oasis-kingdoms are overwhelmed and buried. Fortunately the sand which buries 27th JANUARY, 1909. tham teaven many of their treasures unspoilt.

To get lo chips, overland from India or the West is very difficult proceeding. The INSPECTION INVITED, straight road from the West leads over the great mountains behind Kashgar and down through the Desert of Turkestan. Consequent ly long ago there grew up two great routes

The mau stable civil sution ever existing in along the edge of the desert, threading" the

Torfan would seem to have been, that of the oasis-kingdoms, or, as the Chiness called-sham,

the Kingdoms of the West. Along thase Uigur Turks, a civiligation of which Dr. Lecoq two roads passed all the Eastern races in their discovered in the ancient city remain in descent upon Western Asia, and along them plainte do ose place he found the also passed the great religions which the West rains of terraced pyramid, inset with gave to the East. Perhaps the most remark-recosses which bad once cautated images. able contribution which India bes ever made of the Buddha to the centre of the city, on to the general development of mankind was the the other hand, stand the ruins of thres encr missionary movement which spread Buddhism moy halls, with lateral buildings. The decora over Central Asia, China, and the Far East, tons and the inscriptions in Vigar and and Chinese records show that it was through Manichead characters show"plafaly that this the, Western Kingdoms that the religion of must have been the Temple of the priesthood the Buddha came not directly from the land of of ha Manichean religion, that grandiose attempt its birth, Occasional references, moreover,letbe to combine the three, grant religions of Christ, Buddha, and Zoroaster. In this temple Dr. Lecoq Chiecie annals have long led scholars to suspect that the Buddhist missionaries brought with found the only Maoichean wall painting know.at them to the Western Kingdoms their language Excavation in other parts of the city brought to 【AVING "been uppointed AGENTS for and their art. But of these apparently not alight many documents la Syriac, copies of the trace remained, and the information to be Gospels and devotional writing, obviously the the above Company, we shall be

gathered from the records of ancient travel was work of the Nestorias church. The fact that pleased give any information as to rates of almost valueless. From the Fourth Century Nestorians, Manicheas, and Buddhists lived Onward many, Chinese pilgrims passing through here together and built their templos side by Paisage, &c., tu connection with above.

Turkestan on their way to the, shrines of india side speaks volumes, Tas]Dr. Lecoq bas said, bave, indeed, made brief notes of their itiner for the power and toleration of the government. Aries. But their eyes were fixed on the abrinas The early Arab writers, however, bint, that the Chirers, who were Lords Paramount, were not of the Buddha, and they apparently took me

10 tolerant, nöd in later years attempted to put note of the civilisations which they pissed on

Lan end to these foreign religions: Fonsibly this their pilgrimage.

may be the secret of the cavoxo which must have happened tong ago at the ruined tempis, which Dr. Leceg found altered about the bodies of three hundred Manichean priests their bones siltenyered by the priestly robes THE Undersigned have received instructions landed al Consigned, fue in charge will be

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It was in 1890 that Colonel Bower mad the Airal cobsiderable findlichChinese Turkestan, At Ku-cha, in the ruins of the old city, he found teaves of birch bark on which were written in

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in which they met thojs dough. All these tem- ples and buildings date from the seventh to the with centuries AD. Both art and architecture ing lofaences at war. The Buddhist temples the 27th January, 1909, at 11 AM at their show.very plainly how many were the conflict-

Sanskrit Buddhistic texts. These losven werg the first tangible proof of the existence of an Indian culture in Central Asia, though such chance acquisitions could throw little light on the civilisation in which this ancient Indian learning had flourished. But it turned the at-in many cases are ornamented with rich statu ary and decoration of whatöis known as the

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tention-of-archwologists-to-tha-possibility. Greco Buddhist style. It shows unmilikabla 70 Cases COLOURED GLASS-TILES; have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining

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an Oriental Dionysius and at another au. ruins of Khotan. Chloese records suggested that this little kingdom had played so im Eastern version of Zeus. But all show obvious portant part in the interchange between civilision that the culture came not direct from lons which went on in this mountain-locked Europe, but from Gandbars, in the Peshawur deseri. Judging from the disposition of the Valley, where We temat took Easiers form in ruins the lobabilaots of Khotan would seem to the centurias immediately before and after have waged a vain, eternal warfare with the Christ. Other, and perhaps later, shrines, on the contrary, show clearly the ancient Indian picto invading sand, As the river changed its course rial art exactly as it is seen in the Ajanta cave LATEST MITHODS OF DENTISTRY, the deter overwhelmed town after town, and others were built in their place. The rains are paintings. Other temples, again, were pisinly scattered at intervals stong a line measuring built at a time when Parsian influence was roughly three hundred miles from east to west, strong, for in appearance they, are says Dr. and though varying greatly in date, they reveni Lecoq-sometimes indistinguishable from Sas a uniform and well-defined civilisation. The ruins, -cultura secus to Dr. Stein to bave rested main- ly on Indian foundations, but the fascination both fronï the West and from China, "-

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In the mountain ravinesdo the moribeast.of Turan Dr. Lecoq found the ruins of many Buddhist monasteries built in the rock walls.

In their day they can bave differed, Jittle Stom the Llamasaties of Tibet. Here were found ngoagen. The monasteries themselves werk decorated with pictures of 'Buddhist ceremo

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of Pallay, Athene or of Eros, but whats of bything about them was that for the most part whom they were made, cannot at present be they wern blonde sad had blue eyes. This Dr. Lacog considerato' show bayond all doub! how determined. It is certain, however, that they little the briginal Scythian population had been' were currently used by Khotanese officials in the first two or three centuries of the era, and changed by their successive conqueror.

•'But after all' wa are to-day only at the begin. that they had great influence on localart. “The remarkable diversity of the coltural indsences, log of things. Go far the knowledge we have says Dr. Stein; "which med mingled at. Kaloed has simply sarvad to show how many Khotan during the Third Cedidry &.D. is forcibly and how complex are the problems which cen brought home to us by these records from in Chinese Turkestan. There are still very remote Central Asian settlement, inscribed on many sales to explore, many inscriptions to HE Steamship wooden tablets in an Indian language and decipher, and many languages in master before writing, sued by emcials with strangely pa- we can begin to solve the great riddles of race Indian titles, whose seals carry unto the history whose answers lia-barind beneath the classical world for away in the West." - Sives | Sands of Türkestan —Morning Post (London)... be published kls first reports Dr. Stalm has gathered much more material. But until this :is described by bim at length we must-turn for further information to the north of Turkestan, Lwhats Dr. Lecom has been working for the last four years, Here, be hus gathered much vald- ablo information, which he is engaged at this moment imparting to warlons learned sociaties In this country,,

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Dr. Lecoq went out from Berlin 10 Chissss Turkeitan in 1954. Ho chote as his centre of operations the country about Tarfan-een an- cient kingd m'on the Northern Road which skirts the desert, ⠀ Turfan itself is a walled city and Iles in a depression among the foothills of the Celestial Mountains, fato this, depression mountais torrenta pour down through rooky

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