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
98 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. ;[CHAP. V.
route I proposed to follow, and to tell her
exactly what I hoped to do. Then, as I
traced out a pencil line along the map of
Asia, I first seemed to appreciate the task
I had before me. Everything was so vague.
Nowhere in Peking had we been able to obtain
information about the road across the desert.
I had never been in a desert, and here were
a thousand miles or so of desert to be crossed.
Nor had we any information of the state of the
country on the other side of it. The country
was held by the Chinese, we knew, but how
held, what sort of order was preserved, and
how a solitary European traveller would be
likely to fare among the people we knew not..
Lastly, at the back of all, looming darkly in
the extremest distance, were the Himalayas,.
to cross which had previously been considered.
a journey in itself.
All the terrible vagueness and uncertainty
of everything impressed itself on me as I
traced that pencil line on the map. I was
indeed about to make a plunge into the un-
known, and, however easy the route might
afterwards prove to future travellers, I felt
that it was this first plunging in that was the
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