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 | |
| 天の間で : vol.1 |
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引用情報
42 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. II.
After a couple of days' rest at Sansing, we
turned southward and ascended the Hurka
river to Ninguta. The road was execrable.
We still had our carts, and how we, or rather
the drivers, managed to get them along a road
really fit only for pack-animals was a marvel.
There was a constant series of ascents and
descents of spurs running down to the river.
These were nearly always steep, and the road
narrow and rocky. Small villages were only
occasionally met with, and the country was far
less well populated than that we had recently
come through. The hills were covered with
woods of oak and birch, and their summits with
pines. Amongst them, it was said, there were
gold-mines, which, however, it was only per-
missible for government to work, as the
Chinese think that indiscriminate gold-mining
only leads to fighting, quarrelling and trouble ;
the emperor therefore absolutely forbids his
subjects to mine for gold. We crossed
numerous side streams, and these, as well
as the Hurka itself, swarm with fish, mostly
salmon. The natives form dams across the
side streams, and catch them in hundreds. So
at this time, what with pheasants, ducks, geese,
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