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
204 OVERLAND TO INDIA CHAP. p
men make themselves comfortable in their large tent, and
go now and then to see their neighbours and talk a while
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by their fires. ~
After a short interval it begins to snow hard again at nine o'clock ; but still the moon is seen clearly and plainly, though not bright, and it throws slight shadows on the
snow, and stars of the first magnitude shine from the zenith. p
The ketkhoda says that snow sometimes accumulates to 1 a depth of 24 to 28 inches, and that sometimes the sheep I
are decimated by it. Under such circumstances all traffic ti
is stopped. To-day's snowfall is the first in the year, and I
has come at the usual time ; for forty days more falls may I be expected, but it seldom happens that it snows more than a couple of days at a time, and exceedingly seldom i for a week or ten days. Snow no heavier than this cannot e form mud on the clayey roads ; but if a warm wind passes over the new-fallen snow and frost sets in after, a crust is made which prevents caravans from moving. Snow comes 7 only with a south-easterly wind ; if it blows from the opposite direction the sky is clear, though one would rather expect the reverse, since the south-east wind passes over dry desert regions, whereas the north-west wind I comes from the damp Armenia and the Black Sea. Our t informant believes that to-day's snowfall will not have extended farther south than Ardekan (near Yezd), and I says that Tebbes is considered to lie in the germsir, or d the warm country, where it scarcely ever snows. He advises us to remain where we are if it snows heavily at i night and in the morning, and he frightens my men by I telling them that if we are overtaken by a deep snowfall 4 in the biaban we shall be done for, for in deep snow the ~ camels cannot travel without being tired out. We shall see. Such a snowfall as to-day's I never expected in this part of the country, and it is an exciting incident which I only adds to the feeling of adventure in the desert journey before us. We shall have no scarcity of water if this I weather continues. If it has snowed over the salt deserts the whole land will be converted into a slough where the caravan will run a risk of being drowned.
On the day's route there are no points worth recording ;
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