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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| Overland to India : vol.1 | |
| インドへの陸路 : vol.1 |
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引用情報
86 OVERLAND TO INDIA CHAP.
is Argov. The peak of Alagoz is like a light cloud, hard
to distinguish from those that float below the azure of the /
sky ; but the sun still illumines brightly its snowfields,
while all the country round is sinking to sleep under the
dark veil of evening.
It grows dark and fresh, and we are enveloped in
impenetrable night before we pull up before the customs •
house of Argov, where the chief shows me the greatest a
hospitality, and begs me to come in and drink a cup of tea •
before I go farther, for there are still twelve miles to Igdir.
Meanwhile he makes two horsemen of the frontier guard
saddle their horses, and when we start again one of them
rides ahead with a light, and the other behind the waggons
to see that nothing falls off. Now we drive freely, for the
road is good ; the stars shine clearly, but the villages and r
farms are recognized in the darkness only by the packs of
dogs which, barking furiously, dash after the vehicles.
At last we reach Igdir, and I put up in a tidy Russian a
g astinnitsa, visit the uyesdni nachalnik or district com-
mander, an agreeable captain, and sup with him and his ■
family.
On the morning of November 27 I bade farewell to
Shakir, who had driven me so well all the way from i
Erzerum, and to the other two drivers. They had pass-
ports from Bayazid to allow them to cross the frontier ;
but they were dreadfully afraid of the Armenians on the
Russian side. They received liberal presents, and their
gratitude was unbounded when I succeeded in obtaining
permission for the two Russian soldiers to conduct them
to the frontier. Shakir believed that the rogue of a
customs officer at Kura-bulak would not part with the
pound and a half he had taken as security for their return,
and I therefore wrote to the French vice-consul in
Erzerum that in such case the customs official should be
forced to do his duty.
Igdir has 6000 inhabitants and Boo houses, and did I
not tempt me to make a longer stay than necessary. I
left the little town with three carriages and nine horses, I
and drove along the excellent highroad which runs all the
way to the railway. The wayfarers and countrymen one
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