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
| |||||||||
|
| IIIFカラー高解像度 |
| Overland to India : vol.1 | |
| インドへの陸路 : vol.1 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
引用情報
| X X I | BY DEVIOUS PATHS 231 |
kii erosion edges ; the steppe shrubs were scattered, withered,
and poor, and seemed hardly useful for any other purpose than to feed camp fires.
So I walk on in solitude, compass in hand, and take bearings in the direction of the track and of the objects to
ftri camel's stride. Dry reddish mounds of clay containing
4 sand and gypsum, somewhat protruding owing to its
rk
greater power of resistance, stand on either side. Here
11 and there gypsum crystals shine and flash, and when the
Tit; sun is reflected on their smooth facets they glitter like
electric light. Two small watersheds are crossed by
li my path, which beyond the second guides me eastwards.
di
The bare and empty country stretches out terribly desolate
xit and dead wherever I look ; a curse seems to rest upon it,
1 as though it were doomed never to be trodden by man,
Ke and never bear ripening harvests. But that it also con-
ceals certain secrets may be read on the ground where
it trails of the children of the desert, the wild asses, cross
a one another in every direction, sometimes in incredible
mi numbers. Not infrequently I pass spots lately trodden
by light-footed flying gazelles, and I long to see the
I i animals themselves, and I ought to have a better chance
ki of doing so now that I am alone and no caravan bells
Di scare the shy dwellers in the desert to flight. But, never-
s theless, they keep themselves out of sight, and only the
ti spoor is there to give evidence of the animals' existence.
r3 The country is practically quite sterile, and pebbles
it and loose stones seldom occur ; but where they are to be
found they have been utilized for the construction of small cairns, which seem quite unnecessary, for the track follows for the most part a plainly marked though shallow furrow. The only other sign of life in the perfect solitude is the trail of a number of camels, probably those we saw at Tallhe. Their footprints are extraordinarily distinct, even the smallest callosities and inequalities in their footpads being impressed in the soft earth. Two herdsmen and two dogs had been with them.
Now I have left the dark elevation behind me and a
the side ; I know the length of my step, and can apply it
'i to the reckoning of distances with as great accuracy as the
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright (C) 2003-2019
National Institute of Informatics（国立情報学研究所）
and
The Toyo Bunko（東洋文庫）. All Rights Reserved.
本ウェブサイトに掲載するデジタル文化資源の無断転載は固くお断りいたします。