IIIFカラー高解像度
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引用情報
A Plunge to Whither-Away 93
horse, he did not shoot them and did, I fear, sneak them a mouthful of food.
After one day's rest, Anginieur was again able to get in the saddle. In an hour's march we had picked up our disappearing, re-appearing stream, and in another hour it was running strong wherever it could break through its fetters of ice. • But the valley trended stubbornly north-west. This seemed to mean that we should soon be in the open desert again, and certainly we were wearing away from Lanak Pass—away from possible food and life. So when a wide opening appeared, looking south-west, we felt that reason pointed toward the new valley. I had many misgivings about leaving a descending stream to ascend a long valley. Lassoo's leathery face almost changed colour when he saw us leading away on a new tack, and my conversation with him was thus :
"The sahibs will surely die if they leave this stream."
"But how do you know we shall not t die if we follow it? "
"At Lanak Pass there was big water, and this too is big. "
"But I am sure now that we are far from Lanak ; the sun has told me so."
" Even if we are, this is good water."
"But many times we have seen the streams die in the sands—why not this one? "
"There are fish here. I saw some under the ice as long as two hands ; such fish are not in the waters that die in the sands. And we now go down, that is good. If we go up the horses will die first. The
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