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
| CHAP. v.] KALGAN. | IOI |
all that depended on this, my single servant
and companion, I cannot feel too grateful for
the fidelity he showed in accompanying me.
For the first two weeks, to the edge of the
desert, the baggage was carried in carts, while
I rode. The day after leaving Peking we
passed through the inner branch of the Great
Wall at the Nankow gate, and a couple of
days later reached Kalgan, where we found
some very good shops, and I even bought a
watch. This place does an immense trade
with the Mongols, and with the caravans
which start from there northwards across the
desert to Siberia. But even here we could
learn nothing about the route which I wished
to follow across the desert, starting from
Kwei-hwa-cheng, some marches further west
of Kalgan. How devoid the Chinese are
of anything like an instinct for geography !
Anything beyond a man's own town or the
road he works on has no interest for him,
and he knows nothing of it. Caravans start
regularly from Kwei - hwa - cheng across the
desert to Hami ; Kwei-hwa-cheng is only a
week's journey from Kalgan, and Kalgan is
a great trading centre ; and yet nowhere in
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