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Peking to Lhasa : vol.1 | |
北京からラサへ : vol.1 |
RETURN TO CHINA 199
the same stock as the Tibetans round Jye-kundo,
and perhaps, Pereira adds, of the same origin as
the Red Indians. The Nosu, like the Tibetans,
wear big ear-rings in the left ear.
In the afternoon, with four soldiers as an escort,
Pereira made an adventurous trip across the
Yangtze into Nosuland. He went down the river
3 miles to the north-east of the ferry. The village
at the ferry, Kan-t'ien-pa, had some twenty
Chinese families, who seemed to be fearless of raids
and had not even protective towers. The Yangtze
was here 80 yards wide, very muddy and running
with a strong current. On the far side he stood
on a rock, but though there was a farm with a
tower just above him he did not see a single
inhabitant ; but there were glorious views up and
down the gorges. Having accomplished his am-
bition to set foot in Nosuland (Lololand) he
returned. He realised that even if everything had
been arranged satisfactorily, the country of the
Nosus would have been too steep for him to
venture in with his bad leg.
Pereira heard from the chief Chinese merchant
at Ta-ching-pa that a French priest used to come
there and also that a Frenchman (Audemard) had
gone down the river by boat. He was also positive
that three Englishmen crossed Nosuland about
1905, coming from Chicu-ch'ang in the centre of
the Nosu country to Ho-k'ou and on to Ta-ching-
pa. Pereira thought that this was probably a
French party.
The Chinese in these parts are miserably poor,
living mostly in wretched hovels.
On April 10 Pereira set out on his return to
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