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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引用情報
332 OVERLAND TO INDIA
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migratory stream of light-green grasshoppers, which hopped across the road in dense troops. We passed two more such processions. There is a continual rustle on the ground as we tramp right through these living streams where several wanderers are crushed into pulp.
Beyond a large hollow with tamarisks, with roots going
down to the plentiful ground water, the oasis Maligat-i-barut comes into sight at a small saddle, and here there are two rather deep fresh-water wells sunk through the pebbles. But the most astonishing and attractive sight here is a grove of fifty or sixty palms, some quite tall, fine, and graceful, and a charming contrast to the yellow scorched desert. They bear little fruit and look sickly. There is no human being here now, but the fronds swarm with grasshoppers, and a snake creeps into a hole under a root.
Now we come amongst black hillocks of weathered
quartzite. The stones on the ground are so hot that it is impossible to hold them in the hand. When we rest a while at one o'clock it is not worth while to sit on the ground—we should be soon up again ; the heat can be felt even through a cloak. It is strange that the dromedaries can bear to be always touching the ground with their foot-pads. It is io6° in the shade. But india-rubber bottles are a blessed invention. Through the rapid evaporation to which they are exposed, the water is cooled down to 72°, far below the temperature of the air.
Beyond a small promontory the bungalow of Merui
(3048 feet) appears, surrounded by sandy ground and numerous dwarf palms called ftish. It is well situated in the valley, but from the bare heated cliffs the warmth radiates fiercely. And this is good for snakes and scorpions.
Here there is a telegraph station, the head of which helped Riza to prepare a Hindustani dish of mutton ; a deadar, or inspector of the mounted post, and a post-office, where the master took charge of my letters. They were Mohammedans from the Panjab, civil and agreeable. The deffadar had his family living in a black tent of goat's hair. He only is a Pathan or Afghan, and the Baluchis here are called Brahui.
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