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 |
188 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. VII.
my journey from Peking. The talk turned on
India, and I was astonished to find how well
acquainted M. Petrovsky was with that country.
He showed me with pride many volumes by the
best English writers on Indian subjects, and
the most recent parliamentary Blue Books on
the country. The annual parliamentary report
on the " Material and Moral Progress of India "
was one which he took in regularly, and admired
much. He had known the present Amir of
Afghanistan, Abdul Rahman, at the time he
was a refugee in Samarcand, and he knew the
names and a good deal of the personal history
of most of the leading men in Kashmir. On
the Central Asian question he spoke very
freely, and said that we English always sus-
pected the Russians of designs upon India,
but that in reality nothing was further from
their minds.
When I returned to the serai from my visit
to the consul, the Afghan Aksakal eyed me
closely, to see if there were any signs of a
scrimmage with the Russian, and when I told
him that M. Petrovsky was coming on the
following morning to return my visit, he
seemed relieved. I said I should want the
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