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あまりなじみの無い単語・熟語をちょっと解説。
Seven Years in Tibet :
Internment-12In one of the villages, the natives beat their drums, and we at once fancied they were sounding the alarm. That was one of the difficulties that anyone brought up among our exclusively white population can hardly imagine. In Asia, the sahib invariably travels with an escort of servants and never carries the smallest package himself - what would the natives think, therefore, when they saw two heavily laden Europeans plodding on foot through the countryside!
We decided to march by night, knowing that the Indians are afraid to go through the jungle in darkness on account of the wild beasts. We did not enjoy the prospect particularly ourselves, having often read stories in the newspapers available in the camp of man-eating tigers and leopards.
natives：現地の住民達
fancied：思い込んだ
sound：音を鳴らす
brought up：育った
exclusively：もっぱら
sahib：だんな
invariably：常に、必ず
escort：同伴
heavily laden：重い荷物を背負った
plod：とぼとぼ歩く
countryside：田舎
march：進む
on account of 〜：〜の理由で
enjoy 〜 ourselves：楽しむ
prospect：様子