Once or twice under the foothills i glimpsed the mound of a kurgan , broken open like the lips of a volcano ? the burial - place of a tribal chief , perhaps , or the milestone of some lost nomad advance 在山麓小丘之下,我瞥见了一两个坟头,坟头已经裂开,样子与火山口相仿? ?也许,它是部落首领的埋葬之地,或者就是某个迷失的游牧开拓者的一座里程碑。