句子并列和伴随修饰的选择问题，大全一题，请大家指点---

Traveling the back
roads of Hungary, in 1905 Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály began their pioneering
work in ethnomusicology, and they were armed only with an Edison phonograph and insatiable curiosity.

(A) Traveling the back roads of Hungary, in
1905 Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály began their pioneering work in
ethnomusicology, and they were armed only

(B) In 1905, Béla
Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, traveling the back roads of Hungary, began their
pioneering work in ethnomusicology, and they were only armed

(C) In 1905 Béla
Bartók and Zoltán Kodály began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology,
traveling the back roads of Hungary armed only

(D) Having
traveled the back roads of Hungary, in 1905 Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály began
their pioneering work in ethnomusicology; they were only armed（C）

(E) Béla Bartók
and Zoltán Kodály, in 1905 began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, traveling the back roads of Hungary, arming
themselves only 

答案C，doing的分词省略结构这里难道没有修饰歧义：