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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| Southern Tibet : vol.4 | |
| 南チベット : vol.4 |
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引用情報
THE WANDERINGS OF THE HUNTERS.
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very near the earth's surface and hiding the higher
covered by heavy clouds going parts of the mountains.
Pan. 79, Tab. 12, shows Here we see the continuation
the eastern half of the horizon from Cain] LXIX. of the open valley between S. 33° E. and S. 24° E.
which, at a considerable distance to the S. S. E., is bounded by low mountains.
On November 24M our direction is again S. S. E. for 11.8 km. The ground falls 95 m. as Camp LXX has a height of 4,904 m.; the slope is, therefore, as i : i24. During the march a little secondary threshold of 4,965 m. is passed. The configuration of the country remains, on the whole, the same as during the two previous marches. The ground is level or slightly undulating and favourable for the caravan. We slowly approach the foot of the comparatively low range of hills which borders the great valley to the west ; to the east of the valley the mountains are higher, particularly one part of them, which according to the description given by the last Tibetans, must be Goro-lebre. At its foot there is a little depression, the bed of which is brownish red and is now without water; it is the recipient of the watercourses from the neighbouring mountains. On the southern side of the little secondary pass of 4,965 m. the ground slopes down to the upper mouth of a very narrow gorge between steep mountain walls. As ice was to be found here, we camped at the entrance to the gorge, where the grass was rather poor. Fireplaces and dung of sheep were numerous. The farther southwards we advanced the more common became the traces of human visits. During the last few days, since Camfi LX ICI, we had, however, not met any natives, neither hunters nor nomads, and, of course, no gold- and salt-diggers, whose work is impossible during the winter. Many of the gold-diggers are said to be inhabitants of Lhasa. It would be of great interest, though still very difficult, to mark on a map the principal comparatively regular wanderings of the Tibetans during the different seasons of the year. The most irregular and, therefore, most difficult to follow would be the wanderings of the hunters. They advance farther north. They wander, as a rule, alone or at the most two or three tents together, and they are more independent of good grazing grounds than the nomads. Some of the latter undertake, as we found, very extensive annual wanderings, coming the whole way from Gertse to the regions we have just crossed, and after having passed the winter there again return to Gertse. During these journeys they always camp at places where good grass is to be found, and they are never in a hurry. Even the wandering itself is a part of the care they take of their flocks, and sometimes they stop several days at the same place to give their
sheep a good rest, which, of course, always is chosen at places where the grass is particularly good. The nomads we had met thus undertake their long wanderings in search of better grass than is to be found at Gertse. It was by mere chance that we had met them on our way. But if we had continued farther east in the
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