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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| Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
| 天の間で : vol.1 |
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引用情報
CHAP. ri.] COSSACK HOSPITALITY. 47
stores for a Russian colonel seems to be his
own quarter-master and storekeeper and all
about the room were piles of saddlery, racks of
arms, and heaps of miscellaneous articles of
Cossack equipment.
We had some light refreshment, and then
the colonel took us round to see the barracks.
Here the Cossacks were still hard at work,
completing the building before winter set in.
They were hard, strong-looking men, fair in
complexion, with cheery good-natured faces ;
and there was about them a workmanlike air,
which gave one the idea that they could and
would turn their hands to anything. An
English soldier is perfectly right when he has
shaken down on active service, but in barracks
he produces the impression that his dress is his
main interest in life. A Cossack, on the other
hand, wherever one meets him, looks as if he
were ready to buckle to and fight there and
then ; and certainly dress or appearance is the
last thing in the world he would trouble his
head about. The barracks they had just con-
structed were rough but clean, and about as
good as those of our native troops in India.
They were inferior to those of the Chinese
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