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
RXIV
WITHOUT GUIDES
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the animals had lately been grazing. At this camp, No. 13, the locality is called Gabr-i- H aj i- N ezer, after a man from Sherab who died and was buried here. On the next day's march we should come across a track
EO leading to Ashin, Jandak, Anarek, Yezd, and Kerman,
which comes from Teheran and Cheshme-i-bolasun. Past Gudar-i-keftari, or the " defile of rock pigeons," a route runs to Kashan and Mehabad. Below Kuh-i-busurgi, where there is a hill Gerdane-barike, there are no roads at all.
Two of our camels are a little weak, having sores on
their dewlaps below the chest. One would suppose that this part would be little subject to friction, but the fact is that our camels lie down for as long a time as they march with their loads or graze round the camp, and if the ground consists of pebbles and coarse sand the dewlap is exposed to friction, and all the more if the animals are
tit thin. They have had very hard work ever since they left
ti Teheran, and the fodder they have obtained has been all
too scanty. Now, however, the loads are considerably
t lighter, for we have only straw for one day and three sacks
of cottonseed left, and we no longer carry water with us. Seven of our camels, the large stallions, are still in excellent condition ; the other six are a little thin, but there is nothing much the matter with them. We intend, however, as soon as an opportunity occurs, to let them rest a while and feed themselves up.
A journey through these parts of the interior of Persia
must necessarily be very monotonous and colourless. We leave our camp at the foot of a small sterile and fragmentary hill, and camp in the evening at another. And between the two we cover 14 to 20 miles of heavy, dreary road, through pebbles and trenches or soft soil. No vegetation is seen but the poor shrubs, tamarisks, and saxaul of the steppe, no towns or villages, no human beings but herdsmen. Nothing else can be expected here on the margin of a salt desert ; but sooner or later we
shall, nevertheless, come to a true oasis. While I draw a panorama of the hills nearest to us, which are yet so far off, my tent is set in order, and when I have taken my
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