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Southern Tibet : vol.3 |
| 南チベット : vol.3 |
引用情報
OCR読み取り結果
In the chapter *Partenza della Missione dal terzo e principal Tibet*¹ De-
sideri says that on this journey one has to pass over a very high and trying moun-
tain called Langur; »which has such a quality that everybody who passes over it,
will absolutely feel a great discomfort, specially great pains in the head and short-
ness of breath and difficulty of respiration, to all of which also comes the fever».
Although he passed at the end of May he had heaps of snow and a killing wind
and cold. »As it is impossible to ascend and descend the whole mount Langur in
one day, there is a great house, in which passengers may rest for cover and pro-
tection.» But many travellers, from difficulty of respiration, are not able to stay
in this house, and prefer to sleep in the open air. Remembering the curious
explanation Father Huc gave of the mountain sickness, it is interesting to read
Desideri's views 125 years earlier. Huc says: »on éprouve un malaise tout-à-fait
semblable au mal de mer». Some of his party rested at a place where »les va-
peurs pestilentielles étaient, disait-on, moins épaisses; le reste, par prudence aussi,
épuisa tous ses efforts pour arriver jusqu'au bout, et ne pas mourir asphyxié au
milieu de cet air chargé d'acide carbonique . . . La présence de l'acide carbonique
était cause qu'il était très-difficile d'allumer le feu . . .»² This was on the heights
of Burkhan-Budda. Desideri has the following simple and sensible explanation: »Many
people suppose that such inconveniences are due to vapours from certain minerals
that are to be found in the interior of Langûr; but as no positive sign of such
minerals has been obtained up to date, I would rather believe that such effects come
from the great acuteness and subtility of the air. I am still more induced to believe
so by the fact that I experienced a more painful discomfort on the forthcoming of
the wind, and that on the summit of Langûr I positively suffered from deathlike
shortness of breath. And even more I do believe so seeing many people suffering
more from shortness of breath when inside the large house, where the air is still
more subtilized by the action of the fire, made to alleviate cold and for cooking,
than when they sleep in the open air. If that inconvenience were caused by mineral
or pestilential vapours from the earth, the effect should be quite opposite.»³
Such particulars as this in a narrative may serve to prove that the author is
a sharp and conscientious observer. Adding to this the extremely clever chapters
he has written on *Usi, costumi e Governo civile*, especially in Lhasa, it is no ex-
aggeration to say that many of the modern explorers in Tibet may not at all be
compared with Ippolito Desideri, who visited the country nearly 200 years ago.
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