Ruins of Desert Cathay 280 - Musa Haji between two other hunters from Korla - Seekers for the fabled san-buried 'old town' - Musa claimed to Stein and everyone that some years past he had come upon a ancient town in the desert but could not find it again. Stein took him and the others up on the quest but all failed. Stein considered this myth a common one among credulous locals.