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0214 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 yellow band of haze, far away to the north behind all
the mountains, had already expanded to a veil with a defi-
nite top, at the height, presumably, where the convectional
currents of hot air rising from the desert had become so
cooled by expansion that they spread out into a sheet at a
position corresponding to that of the top of a thunder-cloud.
Now the veil came slowly toward us, filling the lower gaps
at first, and pouring into the Pisha basin, though the sur-
rounding mountains and the sky still remained clear. By
two o'clock, the dust had been wafted upward so that the
dark Tikelik plateau was hazy; and by four, even the high-
est of the white mountains to the south were dimmed.

During the two succeeding weeks, which we spent in the
Karatash valley east of Pisha, the air was thick with haze
most of the time. Dust fell so fast, that even on a still day
one was obliged to brush his letter-paper every ten or fifteen
minutes to prevent the pen from becoming clogged. Almost
every traveler speaks with exasperation or weariness of the
persistence with which the haze shrouds the land for weeks
at a time. I often felt as if my eyes were covered by a veil,
which must somehow be torn off, or else I should drop into
the apathetic mood of the natives. It would be rash, per-
haps, to say that the apathy of the people, and their lack
of curiosity and initiative, are due in any degree to an at-
mospheric haze. Nevertheless, when the traveler finds that
this same haze tends to induce these qualities in himself,
it is reasonable to question whether its continual influence
upon generation after generation of Chanto natives may not,
unconsciously to them, have been a factor in molding their
character. Now they have reached a point where they are