IIIFカラー高解像度
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| Peking to Lhasa : vol.1 | |
| 北京からラサへ : vol.1 |
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引用情報
198 PEKING TO LHASA
Yangtze, and at 201 miles he reached Ta-ching-pa,
a village of 130 families, situated at an elevation
of only 2411 feet on a small fertile plain by the
Yangtze, which is here known as the Chin-sha
Shiang or River of Golden Sand. It was here
very hot and masses of flowers were in bloom
on the way. Pereira especially mentions seeing
quantities of a beautiful purple lily.
In this land every man's hand was against his
neighbour's. Many houses have a tower to which
to flee in case of Lolo raids. And every Chinese
or Nosu who crosses the river requires a guarantee
for his safety. The Nosu are also at feud among
themselves, so a similar guarantee is required in
passing from one tribe to another. Chinese
merchants get a surety for protection and visit
them for trade.
April 9 Pereira spent in Ta-ching-pa. In the
morning he walked down the narrow street, which
was now crowded for the market, and saw many
of the Nosu who had come across the river. Un-
luckily he could not see the black Nosu, the pure
bred, as they had committed a raid and carried
off twenty Chinese, so were not allowed over.
The Nosu Pereira saw were all of a white serf class,
chiefly descendants of kidnapped Chinese and in
features mostly like the Chinese. Some had
trousers and some had skirts, but most wore over
the shoulders the famous Nosu cloak made of felt
and dark brown or black in colour. Some had
cropped hair and some wore the queue tied round
the head, with a piece projecting like the Nosu
horn. They appeared to be a cowed race. Many
were of the beaked-nose type and were probably of
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