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0243	The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1

0243

The Pulse of Asia : vol.1

アジアの鼓動 : vol.1

sand dunes, from ten to a hundred or more feet high. There
had been a high wind two days before, and the air was still
so full of dust that we could scarcely see half a mile. In the
dense haze the larger dunes loomed like distant mountains,
and again and again we were amazed to find ourselves sud-
denly at the foot of a small hill, which we had felt must be
a mountain miles away. As we zigzagged hither and thither
in climbing the steep western fronts of the larger dunes,
or as we walked along the narrow crests and looked down
the apparently precipitous slopes into the remote, hazy hol-
lows, we experienced the sensations of genuine mountain-
climbing. There was a sense of height and space; we invol-
untarily drew back at the sound of an avalanche, though
it was only sand slipping from under our feet; we gained
each crest with the joy of achievement; and we walked
warily, to avoid a fall that would plunge us down a thou-
sand feet, as it seemed.

In the midst of this weird illusion, we unexpectedly ar-
rived at the top of a bluff. Below us lay the fair savannah
of the band of vegetation along the Keriya River, a nar-
row plain dotted with clumps of tamarisk bushes, or groves
of poplars rising from a gold-flecked, silver-plumed under-
growth of green reeds. We traveled down the left bank of
the meandering river, sometimes in the open plain of reeds,
sometimes among the poplars, and occasionally out into
the tedious sand of the desert, when the stream swung far
to our side. Now and then we passed a shepherd's hut of
tamarisk branches, or, more rarely, a flat-roofed cabin of
poplar poles, reeds, and mud.

Sixty miles below Keriya, we left the river, which contin-

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