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 |
CHAP. Ix.] A SEA OF ICE. 22I
were confronted by another great glacier flowing
down from the left. We now had a glacier on
one side of us, mountains on the other, and a
second glacier right across our front. At this
time my last remaining pair of boots were com-
pletely worn out, and my feet so sore from the
bruises they received on the glacier I could
scarcely bear to put them to the ground. So
I stayed behind with the ponies, while two men
went on to find a way through the obstacles
before us. The men returned after a time, and
said they could find no possible way for the
ponies ; but they begged me to have a look
myself, saying that perhaps by my good fortune
} I might be able to find one.
I accordingly, with a couple of men, retraced
my steps down the edge of the main glacier
for some little distance, till we came to a point
where it was possible to get ponies on to the
glacier itself and take them right out into the
middle. We then ascended a prominent spot
on the glacier, from which we could obtain a
good view all round. We were in a sea of
ice. There was now little of the rocky moraine
stuff with which the ice of the glacier had been
covered in its lower part, and we looked out on
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