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
102 OVERLAND TO INDIA CHAP.
promising that they should go free if they complied, and,
to their shame, they agreed to the terms of capitulation.
But the five Armenians were taken and done to death in
the most horrible manner, after their noses, ears, and
tongues had been cut off, and their eyes plucked out. This
occurrence was regarded as a fearful scandal, and the
colonel of the 80o men from Erivan knew that he would be
tried by court-martial, for reports on missing rifles must
be delivered direct to the Tsar. An attempt was made to
save him, and Enckel had already recovered four of the
lost rifles, and trusted that by threatening and intimidating
the Tatar chiefs he would obtain the two still missing.
At the same time the Tatars attacked the Armenian
village Jarni-ja and drove off its cattle into the mountains.
In this enterprise they set to work in the following in-
genious manner. They crept up to the herds in the
darkness and discharged some shots, which frightened the
animals and sent them off in wild flight in the desired
direction. Riders were posted to see that the herds drew
together from all sides into a close mob, and while the
hunters hung on their heels like bloodhounds to prevent
the flying animals from slackening their pace, they chased
the whole collection over hill and mountain, and before
the robbed owners could collect their thoughts the robbers
were far away with their booty. However, Enckel sent
an officer with fifteen Cossacks and three gendarmes to
follow up the cattle raiders from Jarni-ja. In the evening
he received a report from the officer that he had reached
the village Nagajia in the uplands, but had been fired at
from a height above the village. He had been exposed
to the fire of the Tatars for several hours, and had been at
last forced to retire without effecting anything. But he
had seen a large herd moving up to the heights, and now
asked Enckel to send a reinforcement.
The latter then set off in the middle of the night
with sixty foot soldiers, and made a forced march over the
fourteen miles to reach the village before daybreak. The
Tatars received him with fire from an eminence which was
at once surrounded. After a Russian had been wounded
and several Tatars had fallen, the rest fled farther up into
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