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
!IN xxII STOPPED BY THE SALT DESERT 247
ilk broke up early for another days experiences ; it neither /till rained nor blew, and at one o'clock the temperature was qkiti 47.3', and no wraps were necessary, even on the camel's
1 litt back.
Not far from the camp we came to the edge of the tpi Kevir, the first zone of which consists of a grey dry crust, Iu fragile and brittle, resting on a soft foundation, and as 006: even the spoor of wild asses ceased here, indicating that the ground was unstable farther out, we thought it wiser ikt to keep to the leb-i-kevir, or the margin of the salt desert, irk: as the Persians call the shore- strip or transitional belt between the hard solid pebbly ground and the yielding salt desert. On this outer Kevir zone a few dwindling plants still grew, but the next belt, at a distance of a couple 1, of hundred yards, was quite barren. We had, then, to keep along the desert margin, in order to remain on solid
!ill
"i ground ; but we would try as soon as possible to cross this
' M western offshoot of the Kevir, which now forced us to
completely alter our course. We had already attempted to
t pass over a small creek, but had not gone far on the dark
tit crust before the first camel sank up to his knees and was NI brought to a standstill. Warned of danger, we at once in turned back in our steps, where at least we knew that i a the ground would bear, and where the footprints were only
sir 4 inches deep. Had the first camel taken a few steps
more he would probably have sunk still deeper, and had he still tried to struggle on, he might have been lost. His imprint yawned like a black hole, and the bitter salt water
pi immediately collected in it like pap or a mud-bath.
Where the surface of the Kevir is dark the ground water is evidently highest ; the yellow flats and strips are
I small swells quite indiscernible to the eye except by their
colour, and are perhaps only 4 inches higher than the black parts, but this slight difference of level is sufficient to allow their surface to dry more quickly. The dark belts are therefore depressions, a conclusion in accordance with the fact that they lie at a distance from the " shore," even though offshoots and bays of these dark expanses extend quite up to the edge of the Kevir.
We then tried to keep to the flat hillocks, not more
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