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
15o OVERLAND TO INDIA
CHAP.
up in black felt and tied round with ropes. The corpses travelled in pairs on horses, the coffins being tied together
and laid obliquely against the horses' flanks, with the heads
near together and the feet diverging below. On one horse a living scarecrow sat bunched up between his dead fellow-
travellers. It was all very well at this season, when the
corpses did not smell, but I remember that, when I was travelling in the summer of 1886 between Kermanshah
and Hamadan, the corpse caravans I met emitted an intolerable stench. The Shiites believe that the nearer they are interred to the grave of Imam Hussein the happier
will be their lot after death, and that they will make their i
entry into Paradise led by the hand of the holy martyr. He, therefore, who has the means willingly leaves in his will a sum of money for the purchase of a grave in Kerbela,
where the prices vary in the different concentric rings
round the central point of salvation, besides an additional payment for transport. For the men who accompany the
body on its last earthly journey are also well paid for their trouble. It seldom pays, however, to convey a single body for a long distance, so the corpses have to wait for one another, and only when a fairly large party is assembled do they set out through the abodes of the living.
We passed a caravanserai, where a dozen tall two-wheeled arabas from Kazvin made an interesting picture
at the gate, while a dead mule with its mouth full of grass
lay across the road. Now we have crossed the watershed of the long broad valley, an exceedingly flat threshold un-
noticeable to the eye, and therewith have left the Senjan-
chai behind us and have entered the catchment basin of the Abhers-rud, which dips towards the east. Tilled fields are
more numerous than hitherto ; but there must be a scarcity of fuel, for women and children collect dung from the road, just as in Northern China. We pass Nasrabad and halt for breakfast at Hidej.
The country seems to the eye perfectly level, and small i
dark patches are seen in the distance, gardens or villages. The weather is raw and chilly, and some sleet falls at times. Far, far off, along the route on the left hand, appears a prominent mountain spur which we must pass
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