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0157 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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its dull monotonous aspect, fading away in
various shades of blue, each getting deeper and
deeper, till the hills were reached ; and these
again, in their rugged outline, presented many
a pleasing variety of colour, all softened down
with a hazy bluish tinge ; while the deceitful
mirage made up for the absence of water in
the scene, and the hills were reflected again
in what appeared to be lovely lakes of clear,
still water.

The Bortson well was reached on May 22.
Here were a few Mongol yurts on the banks
of some small trickles of water, running down
from the Hurku Hills to the north ; and it was
at this point that I crossed the track of the
Russian traveller, Prjevalsky. In his first, and
also in his third journey, he had crossed the
Galpin Gobi from the south, and passed
through this place on his way northward to
Urga. Describing the Galpin Gobi at this
point, the great Russian traveller says : " This
desert is so terrible that, in comparison with it,
the deserts of Northern Tibet may be called
fruitful. There, at all events, you may find
water and good pasturage in the valleys : here
there is neither, not even a single oasis—every-