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| The Heart of a Continent : vol.1 | |
| 大陸深奥部 : vol.1 |
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引用情報
304 THE HEART OF Al CONTINENT. [CHAP. XIII.
possibility, therefore, that in former times the waters of the lake may have flowed out over where the Kara-art Pass is now.
Following down the bed of the Kara-art stream, on the northern side of the pass, through rugged, bare mountains, we struck the Markan-su, followed that river for one march, and then, turning off eastward, passed along the spurs which form the northern declivity of the buttress range of the Pamirs to Opal. We were off the high ground now ; the climate was milder, and both in the valley of the Markan-su and along these spurs patches of jungle were seen, and dwarf pine on the hillsides.
At Opal we were again in the plains of Turkestan, and on November r reached Kashgar, where my official duties kept me for the winter.
We were to make Kashgar our winter quarters, and we found a native house prepared for us on the north side of the old city. It was pleasantly situated on some rising ground, and looked out to the north over the cultivated and tree-covered plain round Kashgar to the snowy peaks of the Tian-shan. From far away on the east, round to the north, and then away again on the east, these snowy mountains extended ; and from the roof of our house we could see that magnificent peak, the Mustagh-ata, rising twenty-one thousand feet above the plain. About the house was a garden, which gave us seclusion, and in
this garden I had pitched a Kirghiz yurt, which I had bought on the Pamirs. One night up there we had found an unusually
large and very tastefully furnished yurt provided for us. It
was quite new, was twenty feet in diameter, and about fourteen feet high in the centre, with walls six feet high all round.
But what surprised us most was to find it most elegantly
decorated. The walls were made of a very handsome screen-work, and round the inside of the dome-like roof were dados
of fine carpeting and embroidery. I was so taken with this tent, that I persuaded the owner to sell it to me, and carried it
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