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0400 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 tributary ravines, show that the fields were not watered
by means of some general scheme of irrigation with canals
deriving their supply from some reservoirs placed at a greater
altitude. Perennial springs, now everywhere dried up, must
have existed in all the ravines where these remains are found,
which shows how much greater the rainfall must have been
formerly."
From the evidence of certain tombs, Vredenburg believes
that the fields were in use during Mohammedan times. The
original construction of the walls may date back much
farther.
At Seyistan, near the place where Afghanistan and Ba-
luchistan join Persia, I found that the shallow lake has
passed through a series of fluctuations identical with those of
Lop-Nor, which it closely resembles. The first stage in the
lake's history, so far as man is concerned, was described to
me by a village chief, who related the following legend found
in his dearest treasure, an ancient book handed down from
many generations of ancestors: —
"Long ago, in the days when my fathers worshiped the
sun, all Seyistan was under water. A great lake covered the
swamp and the villages, and even Zahidan and the ruins.
One day King Solomon visited the lake, and saw that if the
water were drained off, the bottom would be very good for
grain and melons and all sorts of fruit. Wishing to benefit
mankind, he sent for his 'Dhus,' huge giants with a single
eye looking up from the tops of their heads, and told them
to make the lake dry. They went to work faster than any
man can understand. They dug up earth from this side and
from that, and carried it on their shoulders and filled the