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.2 | |
| インドへの陸路 : vol.2 |
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| XLVI | TRAVELS IN THE KEVIR L 5 |
sink in, while others again are wet as if water had risen up from below. Persians declare that wicked spirits and ki demons dwell in the desert, and play all kinds of malicious tricks on human beings.
ti South of the great bay, between Khur and Cha-meji,
ti is Hauz-i-Shah Abbas, a water-cistern ; beyond it, " the
Idesert becomes worse than ever ; heretofore it has consisted of solid earth, but here we reach sand-dunes, and the road eads up one and down another, the one so like the other that it is difficult to keep on the right track. . . . The It
horses sank at every step to their fetlocks, and sometimes
to their knees in the loose sand. . . . At last, after six miles of sand, we got to a low ridge of hills."
This is the sand - belt, the northern edge of which I t °` followed on the road to Cha-meji, and of the breadth of °& which we can grasp some notion, thanks to Stewart's figures.
Stewart visited Tebbes, and says that he was the first ,EJ Englishman who had been there after M `Gregor. Thence
his route runs north-east to Turbet-i-haidari, at some b1 distance from the eastern margin of the Kevir. He is? communicates some information about the roads through rt.' the great desert which he has wrongly interpreted. " From
Dasjirdun (Dest-gerdun), which is, I hear, a thriving 1111 place, there are roads directly across the desert to both bti: Shahrud and Damghan. This is the desert road from is Tabbas to Teheran, and almost all the tobacco which is eic exported to Teheran is sent on camels by it." When we L learn that there is water at every stage, and that one halting-ii place is called Tahrud, it is not hard to perceive that this ti road is the one afterwards tried by Vaughan, which runs
' through Turut. He heard also that the road does not cross
the Kevir, but skirts much of it. But by the road from
Khur to Semnan or Damgan there is a great deal of kevir.
i On Stewart's map of Khorasan, excellent for its time,
Kuh-gugird is made double as long as it ought to be, and runs across the desert east-south-east instead of east-northeast to the neighbourhood of Husseinan. More suspicious is the direct road laid down from Chahrdeh, straight through
1 the Kevir and through Turut to Semnan, and the more so that the names of halting-places are inserted on the
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