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Peking to Lhasa : vol.1 | |
北京からラサへ : vol.1 |
170 PEKING TO LHASA
to the river, which at 18 miles narrows and winds
through a beautiful little wood. This wood Hue
describes as a thick fir forest, but Pereira says it
was like an English wood with undergrowth and
trees of all sorts. Beyond the wood the river is
crossed by two rickety log bridges. Alando is a
poor village of nine families, on a narrow strip in a
narrow winding valley. There had been frost in
the night but the day was quite hot.
Of the march next day Hue had spoken in
exaggerated terms, and parts indeed were shock-
ing ; if it could be called a road it was the worst Pereira had seen in 40,000 or 50,000 miles
of travel in the Far East. But there was nothing
alarming in it. The scenery was magnificent, the route lying between fir-covered hills 2000 feet high
and through delightful woods. Leaving the Sia
Chu valley the path turns first northerly and then
westerly through the Nok Chu defile. The Nok
Chu, a foaming torrent, is crossed twice by log
bridges and the path zigzags up and down the mountain - side never more than 400 feet above
it and sometimes alongside it. Between 11 and
18 miles there is some very bad going over
rocks and boulders which have been falling for
centuries and are of all shapes except smooth. At
121 miles is A-lan-ga, a hamlet of three houses on
a rather more open piece of sloping ground. A
mile farther the defile narrows to a gorge. At 19-i miles a more open valley is reached with a
sloping grass belt and some trees, and the hills are
less precipitous. Beyond this the Ja-bu Chu, a
torrent 3 feet deep, is crossed by a log bridge and
there is a steep climb of 150 feet to A-la-j a-güng,
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