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0118 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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snow. During the preceding cloudy day, so little snow had
melted that the river had completely dried up. This morn-
ing, an unusually hot sun had melted the fresh snow of the
preceding night so rapidly that before eleven o'clock the
river had revived.

A month later, on the northern slope of the Kwen Lun
mountains, I proposed to take a guide and a servant, and
go down the gorge of the Sanju River, where the fords are
very bad. The guide said that it would be possible if the
cool, cloudy weather continued, but not if it were clear and
sunny. It rained the evening before we started, but that
neither caused the river to rise, nor disturbed the guide.
The next day, however, it was warm and clear. The guide
became nervous, urging us to gallop down the valley when-
ever possible, in order to cross the last ford before the daily
flood from the high snowy mountains overtook us. We out-
stripped the river, but had not been long in camp when a
boy called out:—

"The flood has come."

Sure enough, the river had suddenly become muddy, and
was visibly rising and broadening into an impassable tor-
rent. Similarly in August, on the upper Chira River, a week
of rain, mostly drizzle, did not cause the stream to rise so
much as did a single day of bright sun. Farther east, near
Lop-Nor on the same northern slope of the Kwen Lun
range, I was told that in summer the erratic Vash Sheri
River becomes a mere brook during periods of three or four
days of cloudy, rainy weather among the mountains, but
expands to a violent flood when, for a few days, sunny
weather melts the snow. Various writers have noticed simi-