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0173 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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twenty-seven hours and three-quarters from
camp, including the halt of four and a half
hours. We had descended nearly four thousand
feet, and the heat down here was very much
greater than we had yet experienced. We
encamped near a well on the dry bed of a
river, on the skirts of what looked like a
regular park—the country being covered with
trees, and the ground with long coarse grass.
It was most striking, as on the other bank of
the river there was not a vestige of vegeta-
tion.

After this long and trying march we (or I
at any rate) obtained scarcely a wink of sleep,
for the heat was stifling, there was not a breath
of air, and I was lying on the ground in a
Kabul tent pestered by a plague of sandflies,
which found their way into my eyes, nose, and
everywhere. That was the most despairing
period of my whole journey, and many times
that night I bewailed my folly, and swore by
all the gods I would never wander about the
wild places of the earth again. These periods
of depression must occur to every traveller.
He cannot help now and then asking himself
"What's the good of it all? Why should I