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. Ix.] THE BALTIS. 247
There is little that is strong or masculine
about the Balti to cause one to admire him,
but yet one likes him for his very patience
and the ease with which he can be pleased.
And among these Baltis I have employed,
have been some for whom I have borne respect
for their intense devotion to what they believed
to be their duty. I now was on the eve of
parting with those five who brought me over
the Mustagh Pass, and for Wali, their head-
man, I entertain a regard such as I do for few
other men.
I picture him now as he was first brought
before me at the inn at Yarkand—a short,
thick-set man, with an iron-grey beard, a
prominent, rather hooked nose, and an ex-
pression of determination and proud indiffer-
ence to danger about his chin and underlip.
Asked if he were willing to conduct me over
the Mustagh Pass, he replied that he did not
want to go, but if he were really required
he would undertake to guide me ; the only
condition he would make would be that I
should not look at a map ! He had heard
Englishmen were inclined to guide themselves
and trust the map rather than the man with
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