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
xxxm THROUGH THE KEVIR AGAIN 399
quite right in saying that the Kevir is a climatic boundary ; the country to the north is considered serhed or cold country, but on the southern side of the Kevir the land is included in the germsir or warm land. Date palms, which grow in the germsir, are very rare to the north of the
Kevir.
The small village soon disappears, and we make a détour to avoid the Panther hill, which leaves room only for a gudar-i ßiaderah, or ravine path available for foot-passengers. We keep to the main valley, which rises up to the pass Gudar-i-penu, and I note down a collection of names of valleys, passes, and summits. A tamarisk-like bush grows here in great luxuriance, sometimes assuming the dimensions of a tree, which is called badum-i-talkh (bitter
almond), or barium-i-kuki (mountain almond), and which we have heard of before. Its fruits are bitter, but they are dried, ground up, and eaten mixed with sugar. The wood is burnt into charcoal and sold. At Cha-kotel-i-madki or " well at the pass of the kilns," we found several of these charcoal kilns, which are excavated in the ground and walled round, and look like ordinary wells. At the neighbouring Hebne-kotel-i-madki a temporary waterfall had deposited lime in the form of a bowl or basin, which was now full of clear, sweet water. Such natural cisterns are called seng-ab, or " stone-water." The rock is limestone.
A little higher up we pass the point where a road
branches off to Khur-i-gez. Through this place runs a more level but longer road to Aruzun. And then we mount slowly up to the pass Gudar-i-penu (4032 feet), where the landscape changes in a moment ; all the intricate dales and crests we have crossed disappear, and the country slopes down southwards, more even and slowly, to pass into an immense arena skirted on all sides by peaks, irregular and
ragged hills. Kuh-i-shur-ab-sar in particular, the nearest to
the right and a continuation of the ridge we have passed over, has the appearance of a row of ruined towers. About the pass a large flock of sheep is grazing, and it is astonishing that the animals can grow so fat and sleek on the scanty nourishment they find on this apparently bare slope.
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