Asia
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| Overwritten | brown with strikethrough |
| Added inline | purple with double underline |
| Uncertain | gray with wavy underline |
| Supplied from another source | turquoise with brackets |
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| Long deletion | gray background with top and bottom border |
[begin leaf 1 verso]
traversing
I traverse
the sea of Kara
A Kamskatkan
drawn
on my
slight‑built sledge, drawn by dogs
The ancient Hindostanee
with his deeities—
The great old empires of India and
Persia,—their
That of Persia and
its
expeditions and
conquests.— The Sanskrit—the ancient poems
and laws The idea of gods incarnated by their avatars
in men and women Thehuge falling of the waters of
the Ganges over thepeaks
high rim
of
Sankara The poems descended safely to this day
from poets of three thousand
years ago.
It is indeed a strange
voice!—
[begin leaf 1 recto]
Asia
- Steppes
- the grass
- the winter appearance—
- —The Tartar life—nomadic pasturage, the herds—
- the tabounshic or horse‑herd
- taboon, a herd of horses,
- The oxen—cows—women preparing milk
with his de
conquests.— The Sanskrit—the ancient poems
and laws The idea of gods incarnated by their avatars
in men and women The
the Ganges over the
Sankara The poems descended safely to this day
from poets of three thousand
years ago.
