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0276 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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remoteness and small size would prevent us from seeking
them. Failing that, and not daring to confess the truth,
the stupid, timid man was going to lead us on a wild-goose
chase, and when he got us far enough into the sands, pre-
tend that he had lost the way. Later, we found a man who
really knew of the ruins, which are located fifty or sixty
miles farther upstream than I had supposed. I could not
go back to them myself, but sent Ibrahim, who was exceed-
ingly proud of the neat little sketch map which he drew,
and of the pieces of pottery which he brought back.
After traveling eastward for two days under Abdur
Rehim's guidance, through a region of great dunes a hun-
dred and fifty feet high, we reached the Yartungaz River on
October 28th. The fall colors of the jungle were still glo-
rious. The poplars, wherever their leaves had not fallen,
were pure yellow, often of a lemon tint; the reeds, golden a
few weeks before, had now become brown, with occasional
yellow leaves. Their feathery tufts of seeds, which filled
the air with downy parachutes, presented a wonderful inter-
shading of the most delicate tints of gray and silver. And
the tamarisks, most marvelous of all, showed an array of
colors as varied, though not so bright, as those of a New
England forest. Deep purple shaded through brown into
bright red; or, more rarely, dusty gray passed impercep-
tibly into orange and yellow. Over all there lay a soft red-
dish shade, rare in this sunny land, where most of the
vegetation brightens from green to yellow, and then fades
to brown.
At Yartungaz, the whole population of about fifty gentle
souls was at our service. The clearing, where six families