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
166 OVERLAND TO INDIA CHAP.
legation, where the men stayed, the baggage was piled up
and soon assumed disquieting dimensions. I need only 41
mention rapidly the most important of the goods purchased:
for my own use a pair of warm felt boots, a Austin or sheep- f/
skin coat of the Turkestan pattern, a candlestick with a glass t!
shade, hand-basin and can, stearin candles and matches. del
Further, for general use, two mangals or iron braziers for •i
burning coals, with their tongs, two large sacks of charcoal 11
to warm the tents and light the camp fires, iron pegs for j1g
pitching tents, an iron spit to roast kebab over the fire, :11
two spades, several hammers, axes, picks, and pincers,
teacups and plates, stewpans, cans, dishes and bowls, two sl
samovars, a trough for washing rice grains, buckets and
pails. Flour and rice were stowed in sacks, the other 11
provisions in wooden boxes—sugar, tea, spices, onions,
dried vegetables and fruit, syrup, honey, bread, etc., and
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in kurchins or double bags were packed all the vessels
wanted for daily use. New pack-saddles were also bought ; cloths and halters for the camels, caravan bells and rattles,
rosettes of thread, finery and streamers to decorate some it
of the animals—well, I cannot remember everything— A
lanterns, hard and soft soap, linen to mend the tent, and a ti
number of other small articles.
All the men were rigged out from top to toe before the start, and took their belongings with them in kurchins, and very soon the baggage made good-sized loads even before we had bought the large supply of j5ambedaneh or cottonseed on which the camels subsist in districts where there is no grazing, and which is more convenient than meal cakes, for the latter require water, which was just
what we should probably be short of. When all was ready It
the loads were of the heaviest, and we could not expect the camels to make more than 3 or 4 farsakh in the day. We counted on a month's journey to the oasis of Tebbes — the distance is reckoned at ioo farsakh. But before we reached there and replenished our stores, the original loads would have shrunk considerably. At Siah-kuh, on the edge of the desert, we would try to find a competent guide, and on the way from Tebbes to Seistan the wells are said to be not so far apart.
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