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. VII.] A KIRGHIZ ENCAMPMENT. 173
divided into many branches, a mile wide in all,
the water in the deep channels being waist-
deep, and the next day arrived at Ush Turfan,
a picturesque little town at the foot of a rugged
hill, with a fort on its summit.
From here we passed through a country
cultivated at first, but afterwards relapsing into
the more or less barren condition which is
characteristic of the district. The sides of
the hills which bounded the valley we were
ascending were not, however, so utterly barren
as many we had passed. There was a quantity
of scrub and small bushes on them, and, higher
up, fine grassy slopes in places. At the end of
the march we reached a Kirghiz encampment
of twenty-two tents. Here were the first
Kirghiz I had met ; but most of the men were
with their flocks and herds, higher up on the
mountain-sides, and it was only the very old
and the very young that were left below with
what might be called the heavy camp equipage.
Having no tent of my own, and there being no
public inn, I was obliged to do as the people
of the country do, and seek the hospitality of
the inhabitants of the tents. This was, as
usual, readily given. We rode up to a tent,
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