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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| Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
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引用情報
CHAP. I.]
INSECT PESTS. 19
of the ridge and down the other, then up
again, and so on everlastingly. Even from
the summits of the ridges nothing was to be
seen ; we were simply swamped in forest, and
could not see a yard beyond it. I know of
nothing more depressing than this, to struggle
on, forcing a way for the mules through the
undergrowth, hauling and shoving them up the
slopes and rocky gullies, and then tired and
exhausted and out of temper to arrive at the
top and find ourselves still hedged in by trunks
of trees, still unable to see what lay beyond.
We were, too, afflicted by a pestering scourge
of mosquitoes and midges. In the daytime we
had the midges driving us wild with their
irritating pricks, and at night the mosquitoes in
clouds descended on us. By simply closing
the hand a dozen of them could be caught at
any time. Of course we had to wear veils the
whole day long, and keep our hands in our
pockets or wrapped round with cloth ; but even
then we suffered badly, washing was a positive
torture, and we had to dash through our
ablutions and get ourselves under cover again
as rapidly as possible. Gad-flies were another
form of torture invented for these parts. They
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