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.] THE SYRT COUNTRY.
regularly in the Kirghiz preserves. These
nomads are not cultivators, as a rule, but we
passed a few patches of cultivation, and what
was very remarkable was that this cultivation
was very often generally indeed in this valley
of poppies. On inquiry, I found that, though
the Kirghiz do not smoke opium themselves,
they find poppies a most paying crop to grow,
and can sell the produce much more profitably
than that of any other crop.
Two days later we arrived in what is known
as the Syrt country. There was no particular
road here, but merely the tracks of animals
leading in many directions. We had brought
a Kirghiz with us to show the way, but this
he now refused to do, and eventually he left
us stranded in the midst of a series of bare,
low hills and sterile plains, without apparently
any water, any inhabitants, or any special road.
We knew, too, that what people we should
meet had not a good reputation, and were said
to rob and even murder travellers, and matters
looked unpleasant. We pushed on, however,
in the general direction of K ashgar, and
towards evening, after a very hard march,
reached an encampment of six tents. The
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