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
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CHAP. vi.] A WEIRD SPECTACLE.
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furrowing out depressions, there piling up fan-
tastic sandhills, while, to add to the weirdness
of the spectacle, the country was covered with
tamarisk bushes, the roots of which had been
laid bare by the wind blowing the sand away,
till they stood everywhere with their gnarled
and contorted roots exposed to view. The
sandhills were sometimes very quaint and
curious in shape, but they usually ran in long
ridges, cutting into one another from every
direction.
I suggested to the 'guide that we should halt
for a day when we came to a good grazing-
ground, to let the camels pick up, and then
make a renewed effort to reach H ami ; but he
said that if they were to halt for one day, they
would not go on at all the next—the only thing
was to keep them at it. Rather like the cab-
horse in ` Pickwick,' which had to be kept in
harness for fear of it falling clown !
The Altai Mountains, rising to a height of
about nine thousand feet above the sea, and
covered with slight snow on the summit, now
lay about twenty-five miles to the north. They
were entirely bare, and the southern slopes
were steep, but not precipitous. In the centre
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