IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| Peking to Lhasa : vol.1 | |
| 北京からラサへ : vol.1 |
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引用情報
100 PEKING TO LHASA
heart-rending circumstances. They seemed to
be quite cheerful and to have no thought of the
black future before them when they would reach
Peking or Shanghai and join the ever-increasing
crowd of Russian refugees dependent entirely on
foreign charity. And in spite of their distress
they wanted to give Mons. Geerts a feast in
acknowledgement of the kindness they had re-
ceived.
Several thousands of Russians were still scat-
tered over Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan;
and Pereira reflected how impossible it would
have seemed ten years ago that a great Empire
like Russia should be dragged down so low and
give such an exhibition of impotence and misery.
Pereira stayed at Lan-chow nineteen days and
on April 3 left for Sining. There exists a shorter
mule track by which that town may be reached
in seven days. But he was tired of mules, and
using carts travelled by the longer route. After
crossing the iron bridge over the Yellow River he
followed up the fertile valley of that river for
11 miles. At this time of year it was as bare and
desolate as the rest of the country. Except for
some fruit orchards there was not a tree to be
seen, and the hills which rose to 200 or 300
feet above the plain were quite bare. Even
villages were few. At 11 miles the road leads
up a narrow desolate valley and is very sandy.
At 24 miles is Hsiao-lao-ch'ih, a town of 70
families. A number of Mohammedans were
passed on this march, and Pereira notes how
strange it was in a country where prayer is
little used to see two Mohammedans get out of
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