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0117 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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gradually choked with ice at the beginning of the previous
winter, the stream had overflowed and frozen in a huge
sheet. In melting, the edge of the ice broke off in a little
cliff from three to five feet high, which the horses dared
not attempt; so the only open path was in the water.

We had no difficulty with the fords because the weather
for a few weeks previous had been unusually cloudy, so
that but little snow had melted. Among the lofty mountains
of the arid regions of Central Asia, as we saw and were told
again and again, floods are rarely or never due to the influ-
ence of rain upon melting snow, as so often happens with
us in America and Europe, but rather to the rapid melting
of the snow under the powerful rays of the unveiled summer
sun. The rain among lofty mountains, as is well known,
is usually a cold drizzle with little melting power; while the
sun, shining undimmed through the clear thin air, is extraor-
dinarily hot. May 28 was a cloudy day, and a little wet
snow fell in the evening. We pitched our camp that night
on the right side of the Shyok River, a clear, rushing stream
thirty feet wide and a foot deep. In the morning, we traveled
diagonally across the cobble-strewn flood-plain, here about
half a mile wide. It was seamed with numerous dry chan-
nels. Some time after we had come to the farther side, it
suddenly occurred to me that we had not crossed the river.
I waited till Mr. Barrett came up, and asked: —

"Have you crossed the river this morning?"

He could not remember having done so, and neither could
the men. We looked again, but there was no river. Yet
even as we were talking about it, a new stream came foam-
ing down a dry channel, a red muddy flood of freshly melted