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
33o OVERLAND TO INDIA
CHAP.
to get our things under cover and revive the dying fire. And there we sat, the three of us, and stared into the flames, and mutely confessed that our plan of starting off
howled, disgusted at being wet through and yet unable
to quench his thirst. Persians do not allow dogs indoors,
so Nevengk had to keep company with the camels.
Nine o'clock ; it is 9° above freezing-point, the wind
has fallen, the rain pours down, and the noise of the a
tremendous deluge penetrates into our den, as though :I
laughing us to scorn. I go out to read the instruments and feel that the ground has become soft ; I sink in the mire, which spurts up under my feet. Wet and dripping,
I creep back into the cabin, a dirty, ill-smelling hole full of smarting smoke.
" How long will the desert take to dry up if it continues to rain all night ? " I ask.
" Three or four days."
" And if it still rains to-morrow also ? "
" Ten days."
" We shall see what it is like in the morning, but we
will not wait in this hole for ten days, exactly the time required to cross the desert twice."
" It is already impossible to go out into the desert, a
sa'ab ; at any rate, we may sleep till morning."
To pass the time the men begin to relate their experiences and adventures in the Kevir. How many caravans
have been lost in this frightful desert ! Gulam Hussein was two years ago with a caravan which lost five of its camels in consequence of a very violent and heavy snowstorm. The snow melted at once on the salt ground, which became so wet and smooth that the caravan had to encamp in the middle of the Kevir. And as it also blew hard from the north the camels died of cold, and
one man lost his feet and became a cripple for the rest
of his life. The guide says that it is impossible to conceive anything more exhausting and wearisome than to walk through the mud. One sinks in up to the knee at every step. If one goes quickly in order not to sink in
at three o'clock in the morning had vanished in smoke.
Nevengk, who had followed me unbidden, lay outside and
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