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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XXIII WESTERN MARGIN OF THE KEVIR 265
have a harder structure, either of rock in a more or less weathered condition, or of fragments and splinters from the screes that fall towards the bottom of the depression. It is an exceedingly singular and fantastic landscape, and, as before, we find that the herdsmen have a great respect for the interior of the Kevir. The Dom herdsman said that when continued drought prevails, the surface of the
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Kevir is covered with a harder crust which bears well, but that, all the same, it would be very dangerous to
I venture over it with a large caravan. He compared it to
a sheet of thin ice on a morass, and said that a caravan
k would be in danger because the crust might give way
ki altogether beneath the camels so that they might be all
drowned at once. But he had also heard that in the
ill middle of the Kevir, inaccessible to any human being,
there were oases with fragrant grass, waving palms, and
la sweet clear water. Like most other peoples, the Persians
i have a capacity for picturing the unattainable in very
attractive and charming colours.
Iii The tired camel reached the camp, but in a very feeble
I; condition. Though, like the others, he had abstained from
I water for four days, he would hardly look at it, an indiffer-
it ence which is regarded as a very bad symptom. Loaves
1 were kneaded for him, but he had no appetite. In the
33 evening the three camel drivers sat round a fire in the
1! open air, mending defective pack-saddles and shoes, talking
and smoking, and curiously lighted up by the red glare
'II of the flames. They were rather tired after the day's long
pull uphill when they went on foot, while Mirza and Avul Kasim did not take a step. It is a great thing that all are
i contented and well, and hitherto I had not heard an ugly
R word in the caravan.
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