Ruins of Desert Cathay 46 - Food offerings to the sacred pigeons at shrine of Kum-Rabat Padshahim. This shrine was on the direct caravan route from Kashgar and close to Khotan. The shrine memorialized a legend that pigeons in the middle ages had helped a Moslem commander to defeat the 'heathen' that is local Buddhists. Colin Thubron, famous travel author, searched for this place during his solo trek along the Silk Road, but failed to find it.