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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| Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.1 | |
| 中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.1 |
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CH. XIV WELCOME NEAR KHOTAN TOWN 169
from Kashmiri immigrants, etc., passed me as it were in
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review.
The crossing of the Kara-kash river, now in full flood, took us a long time ; for though there were two fairly
big ferry-boats available for our party and baggage, the
rapidity of the current flowing at over one yard in the second, and still more the sand-banks, sorely tried the
modest skill of the ' Suchis ' or watermen. We crossed
about a mile and a half below the town, where the river flowed in two branches about 6o and 150 yards broad.
The depth of the water in the middle and towards the east bank, where the current was setting, was up to eight or nine feet. As far as Khan-arik we crossed a well-cultivated tract belonging to the Sipa canton. Then followed a belt of marshy ground, and farther on towards Lasku the sands of Balamas-kum, an inlet from the true desert on the north which irrigation is now slowly reconquering.
It was in the midst of this glaring waste, where the thermometer at r o A.M. showed a close approach to zoo° Fahr. in the shade, that I was solemnly received by my old friend Badruddin Khan, the chief Afghan trader of
Khotan (Fig. 5o), and some representatives of the Indian community. It was a large gathering, showing curiously
how much the general economic advance of Chinese Turkestan has brought Khotan also nearer. In addition to Afghan traders chiefly from Kabul, Pishin, and Bajaur settled here years ago, there appeared two Hindus, and even a full-fledged ' native doctor' in the shape of M.
Abdul Aziz, late Hospital Assistant at Kashgar. The last, a much-travelled Muhammadan from the vicinity of Delhi,
had during his temporary stay at Khotan found a big field for practice with all the varied chronic diseases prevailing in the oasis. But he complained, with good reason, no doubt, of the backward notions of his well-to-do patients, who were slow to realize that they owed him more substantial rewards than words of gratitude and offers of prayers.
But more interesting to me than this Aesculapius, who dressed in Franco-Turkish fashion—he had lived for some time in Mecca and Bushire—and talked English of sorts,
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