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
S XXXII TURUT 3$1
Such ground we had ourselves met with in the neighbour-
hood of Kuh-i-nakshir. Particularly on the eastern route,
from Turut to Khur, it is said that one should never
diverge ever so little to the east or west if one would
not risk sinking.
While we were staying over February 7 in Turut
there was fine dense rain several times, and we were told
that the desert would certainly be gel or slippery again.
We had therefore to spend another day in waiting and
arm ourselves with patience, and so much the more that
there was always a chance of more rain, which might delay
our return to the main caravan indefinitely. And every
day we were more anxious to go. With our men we had
every possible comfort, but as long as we were separated
we lived hardly.
We were therefore prepared to be cut off from our
caravan and be obliged to make a flanking movement,
for if the Kevir became so soddened by more rain as
to make the journey impossible, we could do nothing
but follow the eastern margin of the salt desert to
Tebbes. There is such a way, but it takes twelve long
or fifteen short days' marches. I wished, however, to
avoid it, for Lieutenant Vaughan travelled by it in the
years 1888 and 189o, making a very valuable contribution
to our knowledge of the Kevir's easterly extension.
During the delay caused by the rain I could not spend
the time better than in collecting data about the surrounding
country and drawing types of the people. The inhabit-
ants of Turut proved to be of quite a different temperament
from those of the villages on the south of the Kevir. It can-
not be because Turut is a port, for in that case the people
of Jandak, Peyestan, and Khur would all be of the same
pattern, but in Turut they were wilder, bolder, and more
inquisitive. There was no difficulty in getting them to sit
as models when I gave them two kran apiece, but I had
not finished more than a couple of portraits before the
courtyard was crammed with unruly ragamuffins, who
pushed in all directions and disturbed the sitter. When I
had finished the fourth head they were so closely crowded
round me that there was great danger of migrating vermin,
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