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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Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
天の間で : vol.1 |
102 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. V.
the place was information to be obtained of
the route by which we had to go. How
different all this is from what one sees in the
bazaars of Central Asia, where the merchants
—some from India, some from Turkestan,
some from Afghanistan, some even from Con-
stantinople and Moscow meet and talk over
the countries they have travelled in and the
state of the roads, so that a traveller can
always obtain a fair general idea of any
caravan route now in use !
At Kalgan I met the ex-captain of a Chinese
gunboat which had been engaged in the action
at Foochow during the Franco-Chinese war.
His was a curious story. The Chinese have
a principle that in a battle a commander must
- either be victorious or else die. This man's
vessel had been moored at some distance from
the French fleet, and had consequently escaped
the fate of the rest of the Chinese ships, and
had not been blown out of the water. The
captain, seeing the day was lost, and not being
able to do anything to retrieve the disaster
with his little gunboat, had run ashore and
escaped. The Chinese Emperor, however,
considered this a most ignominious proceeding.
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