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 |
170 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. VII.
They talked of those as good times, and spoke
of the conduct of the Chinese as very zabardast
(oppressive), saying the Turks were like sheep
to submit to it.
Kuchê town and district has, probably, sixty
thousand inhabitants. There are remains of
the walls of the old Turk city south-east of
the Chinese, but the greater number of houses
and all the shops are outside of this. The
shops are small, like those in India, and
nothing of native manufacture is sold, ex-
cepting sheep-skins, which are a speciality of
this place.
After leaving Kuchê the country was still
more populated, though the greater part of each
march was over bare desert or through barren
hills. We would also pass through country
watered by numerous streams running down
from the mountains, the road lined with trees,
and snowy mountains in the background.
Wheat, oats, and maize were the chief crops.
Reaping was just beginning. A noticeable
thing in this part was the absence of local carts.
They were not used at all for farm purposes
or for carrying country produce into town.
Donkeys only were employed for this, and one
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