エデンの東（６５） ———————————【６５】————————————————— From their barren hills the Hamiltons could look down to the west and see the richness of the bottom land andthe greenness around the Salinas River. ————————————(訳)——————————————————…

エデンの東（６４） ———————————【６４】————————————————— Even in reasonably good years there was so little feed thatthe cattle kept thin running about looking for enough to eat. ————————————(訳)—————————————————— かなり恵まれた年でさえ、食…

エデンの東（６３） ———————————【６３】————————————————— If the land had been any good the Hamiltons would have been rich people. But the acres were harsh and dry. Therewere no springs, and the crust of topsoil was so thin that theflinty bo…

エデンの東（６２） ———————————【６２】————————————————— He followewd the usual practice. He took a quarter-sectionfor himself and a quarter-section for his wife, and since shewas pregnant he took a quarter-section for the child. Overthe ye…

エデンの東（６１） ———————————【６１】————————————————— When Samuel and Liza came to the Salinas Valley all the level land was taken, the rich bottoms, the little fertile creases in the hills, the forests, but there was still marginal land…

エデンの東（６０） ———————————【６０】————————————————— I do not know where Samuel met her, how he wooed her,married. I think there must have been some other girl printedsomewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and his wifewas not …

エデンの東（５９） ———————————【５９】————————————————— She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals thatpinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everythingthat was pleasant to do. ————————————(訳)—————————————————— 彼女は厳…

エデンの東（５８） ———————————【５８】——————————————— I don't know what directed his steps toward the SalinasValley. It was an unlikely place for a man from a green country to come to, but he came about thirty years before the turn of the …

エデンの東（５７） ———————————【５７】——————————————— Other men who had the talent took Samuel's tricks and sold them and grew rich, but Samuel barely made wagesall his life. ————————————(訳)——————————————————— 他の商才に長けた人たちは、サ…

エデンの東（５６） ———————————【５６】——————————————— He was a good blacksmith and carpenter and woodcarver, and he could improvise anything with bits of wood and metal. Hewas forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing anddoing it b…

エデンの東（５５） ———————————【５５】——————————————— He came to the Salinas Valley full-blown and hearty, full ofinventions and energy. His eyes were very blue, and when hewas tired one of them wandered outward a little. He was a bigman b…

エデンの東（５４） ———————————【５４】——————————————— Why Samuel left the stone house and the green acres of his ancestors I do not know. He was never a political man, so itis not likely a charge of rebellion drove him out, and he wasscrup…

エデンの東（５３） ——————————【５３】——————————————— Young Samuel Hamilton came from the north of Irelandand so did his wife. He was the son of small farmers, neitherrich nor poor, who had lived on one landhold and in onestone house for ma…

エデンの東（５２） ...———————————≪第２章≫——————————————— ..———————————〚第１節〛——————————————— ————————————【５２】——————————————— I must depend on hearsay, on old photographs, on stories told,and on memories which are hazy and mixed with…

エデンの東（５１） —————————————【５１】——————————————— I think* of Bolsa Nueva, a new purse; Morocojo, a lame Moor (who was he and how did he get there ?) ; Wild Horse Canyon and Mustang Grade and Shirt Tail Canyon. The names of places ca…

エデンの東（５０） ———————————【５０】———————————————— The Americans had a greater tendency to name places for people than had the Spanish. After the valleys were settled the names of places refer more to things which happened there,and th…

エデンの東 （４９） ———————————【４９】——————————————— Wheel tracks of buckboards replaced the trails, and fields ofcorn and barley and wheat squareed out of the yellow mustard.Every ten miles along the traveled routes a general store andb…

エデンの東（４８） ———————————【４８】——————————————— Whenever a trickle of water came out of the ground a housesprang up and a family began to grow and multiply. Cuttings ofred geraniums and rosebushes were planted in the dooryards. —————…

エデンの東（４７） ———————————【４７】——————————————— Then the Americans came——more greedy because therewere more of them*. They took the lands, remade the laws to make their titles good. And farmholds spread over the land, first in the va…

エデンの東（４６） ———————————【４６】——————————————— Then places were named for animals and birds seen——Gabilanes for the hawks which flew in those mountains; Topofor the mole; Los Gatos for the wild cats. The suggestions sometimes came f…

エデンの東（４５） ———————————【４５】——————————————— The descriptive names followed : Pasode los Robles because of the oak trees. Los Laureles for thelaurels ; Tularcitos because of the reeds in the swamp ; andSalinas for the alkali which…

エデンの東（４４） ———————————【４４】——————————————— There are many saints, but they are not inexhaustible, so thatwe find repetitions in the first namings. We have San Miguel,St. Michael, San Ardo, San Bernardo, San Benito. San Lor-enzo,…

エデンの東（４３） ———————————【４３】——————————————— When the Spaniards came they had to give everything they saw a name. This is the first duty of any explorer——a duty anda privilege. You must name a thing before you can note it on your …

エデンの東（４２） ———————————【４２】——————————————— These tough, dried-up men moved restlessly up the coast and down. Some of them stayed on grants as large as principalities, given to them by Spanish kings who had not the faintest idea …

エデンの東（４１） ———————————【４１】——————————————— Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through,greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God.They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gatheredmountains and v…

エデンの東（４０） ——————————【４０】——————————————— ≪２≫ And that was the long Salinas Valley. Its history was like thatof the rest of the state. First there were Indians, an inferior breed without energy, inventiveness, or culture, a peo…

エデンの東（４０） ——————————【４０】——————————————— ≪２≫ And that was the long Salinas Valley. Its history was like thatof the rest of the state. First there were Indians, an inferior breed without energy, inventiveness, or culture, a peo…

エデンの東（４０） ———————————【４０】——————————————— ≪２≫ And that was the long Salinas Valley. Its history was like thatof the rest of the state. First there were Indians, an inferior breed without energy, inventiveness, or culture, a pe…

エデンの東（４０） ———————————【４０】——————————————— ≪２≫ And that was the long Salinas Valley. Its history was like thatof the rest of the state. First there were Indians, an inferior breed without energy, inventiveness, or culture, a pe…

エデンの東（４０） ———————————【４０】——————————————— ≪２≫ And that was the long Salinas Valley. Its history was like thatof the rest of the state. First there were Indians, an inferior breed without energy, inventiveness, or culture, a pe…