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
| 140 | AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. VI. |
leave all the comforts of civilised life and
deliberately place myself amid depressing sur-
roundings, and of my own free will go through
such hardships ? " But 'tis always darkest
before the dawn, and I could just see the first
glimmering of awakening day— the snowy
summits of the " Heavenly Mountains " were
rising above me. The desert journey was
nearly at an end, and before long we should
be among a new people and passing through
towns and villages again.
Impatient to reach the promised land as
soon as our well-nigh worn-out camels would
carry us thither, we made an early start the
next day. For nearly two miles we passed
through a country well covered with trees, and
patches of coarse grass and bushes, growing
on a soil partly clay and partly sand. This
unusual vegetation ended as suddenly as it had
begun, and we passed over the gravel desert
again, where there was no vestige of either
grass or scrub. The hot wind blowing off
this seemed absolutely to scorch one up ; but
yesterday's order of things was now reversed
—we were ascending while the sun was
descending, and it gradually became cooler,
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