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0188 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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rain and hail began to fall. When the hailstones melted on
a piece of dark cloth, each one left a spot of dust which it
had gathered in the air, typical yellowish loess, of precisely
the same nature as that which covered the moraines and
mountain slopes. The dust could not have been of local
origin, for the region nearby was well covered with grass,
and was receiving accessions of loess rather than giving
them up. Apparently, the dust came from the desert far to
the north.

During the next few days, we descended twenty or thirty
miles into the narrow Sanju valley. Even at so short a dis-
tance from the main mountain range there was a distinct
decrease in the amount of rain, as we could see from the
vegetation, and also from the clouds which gathered thickly
over the main range, but only thinly over us. The loess,
too, began to grow thinner, and in many places was being
dissected by wind and rain. It soon became evident that
though dust from the desert was deposited everywhere,
it accumulated into thick deposits of loess only in places
where there was rain enough to support an abundant
growth of vegetation, able to hold all the dust that fell.

On June 21, 1905, I left the main caravan and went down
the Sanju valley. Thereafter, in order to cover more ground,
Mr. Barrett and I worked independently most of the time,
until our final separation in September. Taking a single
servant, Ibrahim, and a Khirghiz guide, I rode down 'the
narrow gorge where, as already related, we raced so success-
fully with the daily flood due to the snow melted by the hot
sun on the mountains. We forded the river twenty-three
times that day among huge boulders, where the horses con-