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
182 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. VII.
We determined now to march on as hard as
we could till we got out of the country in-
habited by Kirghiz, and down into the plains
again, where the people were all Turkis. This
we succeeded in doing the same day. We
followed down a stream, and then, after passing
a small Chinese post, emerged on to the great
plain of Turkestan again near Artysh.
From here I saw one of those sights which
almost strike one dumb .at first —a line of snowy
peaks apparently suspended in mid-air. They
were the Pamir Mountains, but they were so
distant, and the lower atmosphere was so laden
with dust, that their base was hidden, and only
their snowy summits were visible. One of these
was over twenty-five thousand feet high, and
another twenty-two thousand, while the spot
where I stood was only four thousand ; so their
height appeared enormous and greater still on
account of this wonderful appearance of being
separated from earth.
H ere, indeed, was a landmark of progress.
More than a thousand miles back I had first
sighted the end of the Tian-shan Mountains
from the desert. I had surmounted their
terminal spurs, and then travelled week after
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