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Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
天の間で : vol.1 |
CHAP. vii.] A MOHAMMEDAN MISSIONARY. 161
gether in patterns very tastefully. They were
all of European manufacture, some had come
from India, but most from Russia.
While walking through the bazaar I saw a
man with a sharper, keener look than the
ordinary Turki possesses, and suspecting that
he might come from India I addressed him in
Hindustani. To my delight he understood,
and informed me he was an Arab Hajji from
Mecca, who had travelled through India,
Afghanistan, Persia, Egypt, Turkey, and
Bokhara. On my asking him where he ex-
pected to go next he said, " Wherever Fate
may lead me."
Some Turkis seeing us standing talking very
politely asked us to come and sit in their shop
and drink tea. Then we had a long talk
together which was especially gratifying to me,
as for months I had not been able to carry on
a connected conversation with anyone. What
however struck me more than his quaint
description of the various countries he had
travelled through was his manner of addressing
the orderly crowd which had collected round,
and the evident influence he had over them. I
soon realised that I was sitting beside no one
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