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0483 Overland to India : vol.1
インドへの陸路 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000217
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XXVIII PREPARING FOR KEVIR JOURNEY 325

the salt desert's dangerous domain awaited us, the clouds

hung like dark walls and curtains. But now the four

camels stood ready. Jambas, or riding camels, they were

not ; they jolted uncomfortably when I tried them at a

quick pace. But what did it matter ? if the weather con-

tinued to be unfavourable we should be compelled to turn

back at the margin of the desert or travel slowly.

In the forenoon a trading caravan of zoo camels arrived

from Yezd and encamped on the plain below Jandak. The

leader said that they dared not travel in this weather ;

they intended to wait till it cleared up. But I would not

stay any longer, so I mounted my new camel, which at its

usual pace took 220 steps in 165 yards, or 24 miles in

the hour.

The men and boys of Jandak came out and looked on

as we moved off, and the squalid huts and miserable

gardens, with the fort looking down on them, vanished,

and the grey and yellow desert spread out on all sides.