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. VIII.] A CONTRAST. 195
but easy and perhaps happy life, which they
allow nothing to disturb.
How different all this is to what we had
found in Manchuria ! There we had the keen,
industrious Chinaman, working his very hardest
—working away rom morning to night, not to
live merely, but to get the utmost he could out
of the land, accumulating his wealth, seeking
your custom, doing all he could to improve his
position. The ruins, the dilapidated towns of
Turkestan, were practically unknown there,
and the large concentrated villages, instead of
farmhouses scattered, as in Turkestan, in-
differently over the country, or situated among
the fields of the owner, spoke of a people
among whom the sterner habits of brigandage
were known. Of the two races, the Chinese
were evidently born to have the upper hand ;
but whether they therefore enjoy life so tho-
roughly as the easy-going Turki is a question
open to doubt.
Yarkand, as I have said, was the last town
in Turkestan I should pass through, and here I
had to make preparations for the journey across
the Himalayas. On entering the town I re-
ceived a letter from Colonel Bell, written on
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