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0330 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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deviating track, and a wild camel seen by him, left no doubt
that our animals had been led off by wild ones. Ours prob-
ably never came near the others, for it is well known that the
wild camel is extremely afraid of anything which suggests
man; for instance, the saddles which we always allowed to
remain on the animals' backs during the winter to keep the
creatures warm. Two of our camels fought on the way, as
Handum Bai knew from the tracks. Fortunately, the saddle
of the big leader was knocked off, and, becoming caught
to the animal's hind foot by a loose rope, not only acted as
a clog, but made a broad track, easy to follow. At daybreak,
Handum entered a region where the wind had cut the clay
plain into little mesas like those described above, only more
thickly set, a hopeless labyrinth of narrow passages. He
despaired of finding anything, and was about to turn back.
Suddenly, however, he spied a dark spot, conspicuous
among the pale green and gray of the region. It was the big
camel's head rising over a table of clay. The saddle had
stuck in a narrow passage between two elongated mesas,
and the animal was caught in a veritable trap. He bit so
furiously that Handum could not catch him, and was
obliged to go off for the others, which, deprived of their
leader, were straying slowly not far away. Finally, with a
rope from the neck of a small camel, he caught the big one,
and was ready to return. As he looked around to find how
to get back to camp, he suddenly noticed the sun rising in
the west, as it seemed to his confused mind, and wondered
what the evil spirits were doing. He started off, however,
on his old track, only after half an hour to find himself back
where he started. He rubbed his eyes. The spirits must be