IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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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
CHAPTER XIX
THE END
A-TUN-TZU is a town of four hundred families, half
Chinese and half Tibetan, at an elevation of 10,310
feet. The country is nominally under Tibetan
princes to whom the Chinese have granted the rank
of t'u-ssu. But they have no power. The northern
prince rules the country from Yakalo to Dong,
the next stage north. According to Monsieur Per-
ronne, a French musk merchant who had lived here
for twenty years, the Tibetans of these parts prefer
Chinese to Tibetan rule, as the Chinese at any rate
pay something, whilst the Lamas pay nothing.
Also the Lamas are constantly fighting among
themselves, and there is a vendetta between the
chiefs, whilst the Chinese do keep some sort of
order. The southern prince rules some way south
down the Mekong. A third t'u-ssu is a Mosu who
resides at Yeh-chih.
Trade was very bad. The Chinese were gam-
bling and letting things go. Chinese rupees were
current here. Pereira found among the rupees
one of the East India Company of William IV.,
1835. There was a bad habit here of cutting the
rupees in half, and often people would not take
what they considered the smaller half.
Monsieur Perronne said that the Mekong and
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