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
142 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. VI.
comforts and fresh interests were near at
hand.
As we now ascended the range the slopes
were covered with rich green turf, most de-
lightful to look upon after the bare hills of the
Gobi ; while here and there through an opening
in the hills we could catch a glimpse of the
snowy peaks above. There were, however, no
trees nor even bushes, either on the hills or
in the valleys. By the roadside we passed
several horns of the Ovis argali, and two other
kinds of wild sheep or goat, Ovis argali being
the most common. One of these measured
56 inches and another 62 inches in length.
The latter, the guide said, was as big a one as
was to be got.
All the Ovis argali horns I saw on the Tian-
shan were different from those which I saw on
the Altai Mountains. The latter were thicker
at the base (nineteen inches round as against
sixteen), and they were more rounded, and not
so much twisted. The Mongol says the sheep
are the same.
We crossed the Tian-shan at a height of
eight thousand feet. Except the last half-mile
the ascent was not steep, but led gradually up
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