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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引用情報
CHAPTER VII
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THROUGH DESOLATED ARMENIA
THE road from Erzerum to Bayazid is considered very unsafe, owing to robber bands of Kurdish race, and Nazim Pasha had, therefore, increased my escort from two to six men. One of them was the chief of the cavalcade and followed my drosky with four troopers, while the sixth
accompanied the baggage, a division appropriate rather to t
a guard of honour than suited for protection. At Hassan-
kale the men were relieved for the first time, and the 111
commandant wished to increase their number to eight, to II
which I objected. Our driving and mounted company is
arranged so that a trooper accompanies each waggon, two M
ride in front of my drosky, and two behind. They are
mounted on handsome horses, of which some are amblers 1
which do not jolt their riders in the least, even when they
are going at a smart pace ; but one of my outriders has a II
heavy trotter which pounds along so that his Mauser rifle swings and beats the rider on the back at every step. Some of them carry their rifles across their knees or hang
them over the saddlebow. Four men are horse soldiers, V
two gendarmes ; it is a diversion to watch them during the long hours of the journey. M. Srabyan warned me not to lose sight of my escort. I must always have at least one man near at hand, for in these districts one can never feel secure.
In Erzerum better horses are to be found than on the coast, and the surrounding country has an old-established reputation for good horses, which are still sought after in the neighbouring lands. The nine horses I now had were
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