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 |
228 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. IX.
What, however, saved our party was my
holding my tongue. I kept quite silent as I
looked over the pass, and waited to hear what
the men had to say about it. They meanwhile
were looking at me, and, imagining that an
Englishman never went back from an enter-
prise he had once started on, took it as a
matter of course that, as I gave no order to go
back, I necessarily meant to go on. So they
set about their preparations for the descent.
We had brought an ordinary pickaxe with us,
and Wali went on ahead with this, while the
rest of us followed one by one behind him, each
hanging on to a rope tied round Wali's waist to
support him in case he slipped while hewing
steps across an ice-slope leading to a rocky
precipice which seemed to afford the only
possible means of descending the pass. This
slope was of hard ice, very steep, and, thirty
yards or so below the line we took, ended in an
ice-fall, which again terminated many hundreds
of feet beneath, in the head. of a glacier at the
foot of the pass. Wali with his pickaxe hewed
a way step by step across the ice-slope, so as to
reach the rocky cliff by which we should have
to descend on to the glacier below.
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