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
316 OVERLAND TO INDIA
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5 farsakh off, but if you will have them they shall be here in the morning. I can accompany you through the desert, if you like."
" How much do you ask for the hire ? " I asked. " We shall go the direct way to Husseinan, and then from Turut back to Khur."
" Thirty tuman," replied the man, and I was astonished at the reasonableness of the demand, and so much the more as he was to take a fourth camel with him for his own riding, and for which I was not to pay anything.
" How long will this ride through the desert take ? "
" That depends entirely on the endurance of the sa'ab arid on the weather. If it rains when we are on the margin of the Kevir we must wait ; if we are overtaken by rain in the middle of the salt desert the camels cannot take a step, and we must stop and wait until the surface dries again. But if the weather is favourable the journey can be accomplished in ten days, including a day's rest at H usseinan and another at Turut."
We did not carry our discussion further this evening, but the more we talked about it the more eager I became
for a forced march through the desert. Now I had no 1
longer any doubts ; I would willingly spare the ten days and the little comforts in my tent warmed by the fire of the mangal ; now at last I would, whatever it cost me, see the desert close at hand. Of my own men, only Gulam Hussein was to go with me. He was a native of Khur, and had been in the Kevir before. There was no need of tent and bed, only warm clothing and provisions for a few days.
Hitherto my journey had been monotonous and safe ;
now, at any rate, we should run some risk, and have a change in our old humdrum existence ; and then, if it really were so exhausting as it was said to be, it would be a welcome and delightful rest to return to the peaceful life in our own caravan. I could scarcely hope to acquire any valuable geographical discoveries, for a few Europeans had crossed the great Kevir before ; but at any rate I should obtain a thorough and varied insight into it by crossing the desert along two different lines.
At seven o'clock in the evening was heard the heavy
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