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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| インドへの陸路 : vol.1 |
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CHAPTER XXX
THROUGH THE DESERT BY NIGHT 10
HARD frost on the night of January 31, as low as 22.8°. But at one o'clock the temperature was up again to
53.4°.
We knew well that to-day at least we could not make :11
a start, for our camels had gone back to Jandak, and is
would not return till morning. It was therefore of no consequence whether a caravan passed Ramazan's dry
well or not, though, indeed, it would make a change in o
our monotonous life. We were almost like shipwrecked
men lying on a small island and waiting to be rescued a
after they had lost their ship. 'o
Our little colony consisted of Gulam Hussein and I
myself, Agha Muhamed and his servant, Nevengk and an
ass ; so we were six in all. Our neighbours lay outside a
among their bales, where they made themselves a lair a
among the loads with mats and empty sacks. We re- t
mained in our den, but were enticed out by the fine warm II
weather and the light pleasant north-west breeze. My ,
felt rug and my mat were spread out in the open ; the i
burkha, slung over the stand, afforded shade, and I lay ;i
reading a novel as though I were on a summer holiday.
Meanwhile Gulam Hussein cleared out the hole and swept ,
out all the dust and rubbish. It was quiet and silent
around us — not a sound, not a bell from the north I
announced that a caravan had ventured to defy the desert
and its ground, still sodden after the last rain.
Then I drew a panorama of our dreary surroundings.
To the north the hill above Husseinan appeared faintly
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