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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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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引用情報
INTERCOURSE WITH CHINESE 35
in pain unless he twisted himself unequally ; of another
pony "which sprang forward in a full runaway gallop, with
the most furious and awkward motion he ever experienced";
of yet another that was so weak, so tottering, and so
stumbling, and which trembled so whenever he set his foot
on a stone, which was about every other step," that he
could hardly keep up with the company " ; of his being
so eaten up by little insects " that he had to sit down in
the sunshine and get rid of as many as he could, for he
suffered a good deal from these little insects, whose
society he was not used to " ; of his at last finding a
very pleasant-going horse with a handsome countenance,"
which he was tempted to buy, but was checked by the
prudent consideration that he might encumber me at
Lhasa," and too much disencumber his lean purse. Strange
that the first Englishman ever to visit Lhasa should have
been incommoded for want of a five-pound note with
which to buy a rough hill pony.
i At Gyantse the Chinese Mandarin and General, in
1 whose train Manning had come, appointed him a little
ki lodge in the courtyard of the principal house, and what-
ç ever he required was soon supplied by the Chinese soldiers
and others who wished medical treatment from him.
One brought rice, one brought meat, another brought a
table, another brought a little paste and paper and mended
a hole in the window, another brought a present of a pen
se and candles." Every Chinaman in the town came to see
him. The General was vastly civil and polite," and
invited him to dinner. But though he was very much
of a gentleman," Manning concluded that he was " really
no better than an old woman." The dinner was tolerably
good, and the wine excellent, but the cooking was
indifferent.
On the other hand, the Mandarin was impressed by
Manning's beard. He had known men with better
moustaches than Manning's, for he had, for convenience
of eating, song, and drink," cut his short in India, and it
had not yet grown again. But the beard never failed to
excite the General's admiration, and he declared he had
never seen one nearly so handsome. The General, like-
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