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0095	The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1

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The Pulse of Asia : vol.1

アジアの鼓動 : vol.1

reported cause of the abandonment of other villages in the
same vicinity is that the streams have undermined and
largely removed the terraces on which the fields were
located.

At Kurgil, where the Suru River joins the Dras, we reached
the first large village of Ladakh. Tibet seemed very near.
In fact, we were already in Little Tibet, and our men al-
ways spoke of this, their own country, as Tibet, while they
called Tibet itself, Lhassa. Thus far, the people whom we
had met had been Mohammedans like our servants, but
now we began to meet Buddhists with greasy pig-tails and
big turquoise-studded earrings. When I met the first of
them, I suddenly remembered a book on Ladakh which I
had read years ago, and I saw again the mental pictures
of Buddhist sculptures, monasteries, and prayer wheels that
I had formed as a boy. Nor were they far from wrong.

We had left the abundant snow of the Kashmir region,
and were in a region of slight precipitation. Although Kur-
gil lies at an elevation of 9000 feet, the snow had almost
disappeared on April 17th, and the field where I watched a
primitive game of native polo that afternoon was almost dry.
Not one part in a hundred of this rugged country can be
cultivated. As one looks abroad, nothing can be seen but
jagged white peaks and deep, narrow gorges of naked rock,
dull and slate-colored most often, but sometimes of the pale
gray of granite, or tinged with red, brown, and purple.

From the appearance of the map, we had supposed that
our road from Kurgil would follow the Dras River ten miles
farther to the northeast to its junction with the Indus, and
then would go southeast up that stream to Leh. As a mat-

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