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0409 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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A year previous to Smith's journey, this region suffered
from a famine of such frightful severity that he found skele-
tons of men along the road where they had died of hunger,
skulls of children in the very houses, four hundred and fifty
out of the six hundred shops in Nishapur closed, and others
barely able to subsist. Sebzawar was reduced from a popu-
lation of thirty thousand to scarcely ten thousand. Every-
where death ran riot, and frequently half the people of a
village perished. The famine extended with great severity
over all Persia except the northwest. For six years the rain-
fall was scanty, and there was much suffering. Then came
a season when the crops in many places failed utterly for
lack of water, and thousands of people perished in every
province. In view of the periodic return of such famines,
it does not seem probable that Iran is capable of supporting
permanently a population much in excess of that of to-day.
A diminishing supply of water appears to be the cause of
the poverty, distress, and discontent of Persia, and these in
turn have been potent causes of war and misgovernment.