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Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
天の間で : vol.1 |
124 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. VI.
beautiful, for the stars shone out with a mag-
nificence I have never seen equalled even in
the heights of the Himalayas. Venus was
a resplendent object, and guided us over. many
a mile of that desert. The Milky Way, too,
was so bright that it looked like a phos
phorescent cloud, or as a light cloud with the
moon behind it. This clearness of the atmo-
sphere was probably due to its remarkable
dryness. Everything became parched up, and
so charged with electricity, that in opening out
a sheepskin coat or a blanket a loud cracking
noise would be given out, accompanied by a
sheet of fire. A very peculiar and unlooked-
for result of this remarkable dryness of the
atmosphere was the destruction of a highly-
cherished coat which Sir John Walsham had
given me just before I left Peking, saying that
it would last me for ever ; and so it would
have done anywhere else but in the Gobi
Desert. It was made of a very closely woven
canvas material, and to all appearance was in-
destructible, but it is a fact that before a month
was over, that coat was in shreds. From the
extreme dryness it got brittle, and wherever
creases were formed, it broke in long rents.
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