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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
126 PEKING TO LHASA
Pereira tried to pay the owner of the room he
had occupied, but he would not accept payment.
Pereira therefore gave him five squares of red
cloth as a present. His baggage having arrived
on June 21 on yaks and with it nine hundred
taels intact, he resumed his journey on the 22nd,
following down the Hsiu-we Chu valley for 12
miles and passing two monasteries, a few Tibetan
farms and one small Tibetan village with some
patches of barley cultivation. He then reached
the Yangtze, or Di Chu, here called the T'ung-
t'ien Ho by the Chinese, and followed it up for
12 mile to the ferry.
The Yangtze river is here 80 yards wide
and very deep, with a strong current and small
rapids. The party had to cross it in seven skin
coracles, each paddled over by one or two Tibetans.
These vessels are very light, and the current sweeps
them down till the paddlers can make the final
effort and get through. The eight horses and six
mules had to swim across, most of them with the
head held by a rope from a coracle. Luckily it
was a really hot summer's day and the water not
too cold, and all got over safely.
The hills about here were from 700 to 1000
feet high. One hill to the south-east rose about
1500 feet above the valley and had some snow
on it.
Jye-kundo was reached at last on June 23.
The way led down the right bank of the Yangtze
for 5 miles. A Tibetan village of eight houses
and a little cultivation was passed and also a
willow, a fir and two or three other trees, the
first Pereira had seen since Ta-ho-pa. He then
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