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
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OVERLAND TO INDIA
CHAP.
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but it does not usually bring precipitation with it, like the
east wind or bad-i-khorasan. The wind was favourable to
us, for if it continued long and remained dry, it would
accelerate the drying of the surface of the desert, and if
the sun, which now so obstinately concealed itself, would
peep out the drying would proceed still more quickly.
Winter raves and howls outside ; it rushes whistling
through the holes of the ruin, and the smoke is beaten
down from the humming ventilator. We sit wrapped up
in our outer clothes round the fire in doubt as to the
course we ought to take. We have two alternatives to
choose from : either to remain where we are till the desert
is dry, or return to Jandak and then proceed to Khur in
order to cross the Kevir with better luck to Turut, and
lastly travel by the great eastern route round by Tun to
Tebbes. It is quite evident that the day is lost. We can
go without the least difficulty only 2 farsakh, or so far as
the ground is sandy and slopes towards the shore, but then
follow 4 farsakh of kevir, the most difficult part of the way, 3
for the salt ground-water stands here so near the surface 3
that it requires longer than elsewhere to dry up. North
of the hard salt belt, nemek, the Kevir is more favourable
and dries more quickly. If any of the Jandak caravans
went in front and trod down a path we could follow in its
track without danger. After the rain in the night the
mud cannot be so very deep, and after a train of camels
has ploughed up a furrow the ground usually dries more
quickly in the ditch and is less slippery.
At our camp we were in a flat depression surrounded
on all sides by low hillocks, and as this is the last place
suitable for collecting water, five cisterns have been con-
structed at various times, of which two are built of burnt
bricks, the others of sun-dried clay, and therefore fallen to
pieces and out of use. They are fed exclusively by surface
water and only after heavy rain, and have no connection
with springs or subsoil water ; the latter seems to stand at
a depth of 8 fathoms and to be salt.
The newest cistern was erected four years before, and the
money for the work was bequeathed by a man in Anarek.
Over the hauz or rectangular basin, a brick vault has been
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