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
148 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. VII.
tember, with the whole of the Himalayas to
cross before winter.
However, I left all such matters in the hands
of Liu-san, and while he was making inquiries
I took a stroll through the town, and I had
here an opportunity of examining at my leisure
the new people in whose country I should be
travelling for many hundreds of miles. They
formed a strong contrast to the Chinese,. and
even the Mongols, to whose characteristics I
had by this time become accustomed. Less
acute, industrious or pushing than the Chinese,
and at the same time more intelligent and
cultivated than the Mongols, the Turkis struck
me as an intelligent though lethargic race.
They evidently had no intention of taking life
so seriously as their Chinese conquerors, but
they possessed sufficiently refined ideas to seek
for more material comfort than the easy-going
Mongols were disposed to bestir themselves to
gain. The Turkis had not energy or virility
enough to shake off the Chinese yoke and govern
their own country, but they were sufficiently
far advanced to build themselves comfortable
houses, and to improve their position by trade.
One favourable trait in their character, which
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