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0143 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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The temperature of the Lop basin varies greatly, but the
extremes are comparatively easy to endure, and their effect
is much less noticeable than that of the variations in pre-
cipitation. During the nine months that I was in the basin,
from June, 1905, to March, 1906, the observed temperature
ranged from minus seventeen degrees Fahrenheit to ninety.
The extremes must have been greater, for I kept among
the mountains for the most part in the hot months of July
and August, and was at the lowest, warmest part of the
basin during the winter, which was not regarded as par-
ticularly severe. In general, the months of December, Jan-
uary, and February are intensely cold, the temperature re-
maining below zero much of the time. The people suffer
but little, however, since the areas of vegetation furnish
abundant firewood in most places, sheep-skins can be pro-
cured cheap from the shepherds among the mountains, and
warm houses can usually be made of mud. Moreover, the
air is dry, and there is comparatively little wind in winter.
The chief difficulty caused by the cold, except where the
firewood has all been cut off, is the freezing of the shallow
streams which furnish the usual water supply. In some
cases, as I saw at Oi-Toghrak, east of Keriya, the difficulty
is met by digging wells. They are not very satisfactory,
however, because of their great depth, sometimes two hun-
dred feet, and because the water is often impure or saline.
Still, it is much more convenient to use such wells than to
be obliged to melt ice chopped from the frozen canals and
brought home in donkey loads, as we saw in some of the
smaller villages. Where the main stream is so large that
it never freezes entirely, pools, of such depth that they can-