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.2 | |
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2 |
346 AT THE H AM I OASIS CH. LXXXI on the way to Töruk. It is reputed to be of great age, and the massiveness of the central pile, some forty feet square and probably quite as high, seems to lend that tradition support. A roughly built enclosing wall was manifestly of later date, though far more decayed. Against what marauding bands from the north was this forlorn post meant to offer shelter ? After a long and weary march by moonlight, which lay partly up the wide stony bed of a dry river course, we caught a glimpse of water, and after descending into a deeply cut bed to the right, found ourselves by the long-stretched fields of Töruk. The little village of some fifteen households was wide-awake to receive us in spite of the late hour. The rubble-built quarters of the village head-man where I was to put up proved to contain quite a comfortable guest-room, little suspected behind the exterior of this hovel. To be able to pass the long wait for the baggage in a room which had a real fireplace, felt rugs on the floor, and a display of simple household treasures on shelves and cupboards around the walls, was cheering. After all the bare, monotonous rooms I had seen in Chinese Ya-mêns and inns, this evening in a Turki homestead struck me like the first step back to Europe. The Un-bashi was away in the mountains ; but his wife, a homely matron of about forty, took care that hospitality should be full. It seemed as if old nomad | ~I |
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