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
62 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP.. III.
through the forest, the marshes, and especially
when he had to carry his kit on his back, I
used to marvel. To a young subaltern the
thing was natural, but when a high Indian
official of more than twenty years' standing did
it, there must have been in him a wonderful
amount of " go" and pluck, and this Mr. James
undoubtedly possessed.
After parting with Mr. James, Fulford and
I started for Tientsin. We passed nothing of
interest till we reached Shan-hai-kuan, the
point where the Great Wall of China begins,
or ends, in the sea. A line of hills between
two or three thousand feet in height, stretched
from inland close down to the seashore ; and
all along these heights, as far as the eye could
reach, ran this wonderful wall, going down the
side of one hill, up the next, over its summit
and down the other side again, and then at the
end finally plunging right into the sea. It was
no trumpery little wall, nor such a wall, for
instance, as one sees round a modern prison,
but a regular castle wall, such as men built in
the Middle Ages round their strongest castles,
thirty or forty feet high, of solid stone, and
fifteen feet or so thick, wide enough for two
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