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
| |||||||||
|
| IIIFカラー高解像度 |
| In Tibet and Chinese Turkestan : vol.1 | |
| チベットと中国領トルキスタン : vol.1 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
引用情報
318 IN TIBET AND CHINESE TURKESTAN: 7
.0-
I wished to retain the services of the two new men; and' although, through Mohammed Joo, I offered them w-4,ges many times greater than they could possibly get oilier- 7. wise, they declined all overtures, and returned to their
. .
own land.
Being doubtful whether water could be obtained close to the north side of the At To Pass, I set out early-in thé ." morning to make a search. On my. way I saw One very obvious *effect of the rain and sleet : .the stones, lOoSened - by, the s.uperabundant nadisture, rolled and bounded -dow-n-
. .
the mountain-sides in sho-vvers, from which it was ..at tinds
necessary to take shelter under the cliffs. • On overtaking - the two men who had been sent forward With the- trans- ' port sheep, I sent back Stanzin, who had been. accus- tomed to -caravan work, and I endeavoured to- take. his.: . place. The work .of driving sheep wds new to me, and-„ simple though it may appear, I found it verydifficult,-
, The 'animals, hungry and scared by the falling - stones, could not be- made to go forward, but remained huddled together in the bottom of the narrow valley, in_spite of all - my shouting and pushing and stone-throwing. Recogni-. ing that sheep-driving was not my proper vocation, I left them to Nurbu and went •to look for water. My search
.
was fruitless, so that we had to halt in the valley at the furthest place where water could be found. By the time T had helped Nurbu to unload the sheep I felt we-ary,.- feverish, and too weak to return to the caravan. For .several hours I spent the time in alternately looking for the caravan and seeking shelter in a dry_ but shallow water-course from the blinding snowstorm, while the tired sheep wandered about, bleating pitifully, searching for grass where no grass was to be found: Then Niaz. Akun came up and reported that one of my ponies had fallen over the precipice and been killed. The pony, he said, was one'Which h,ad-carried money, and its load had
. •
Ale
.fe
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright (C) 2003-2019
National Institute of Informatics（国立情報学研究所）
and
The Toyo Bunko（東洋文庫）. All Rights Reserved.
本ウェブサイトに掲載するデジタル文化資源の無断転載は固くお断りいたします。