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0039 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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have gone out to preach the very letter of the Koran
—the letter of rigid practice among the Faithful,
and of rigid hate against the Infidel. Until the day
of the railway, the European's presence in any one
of Bokhara's eighty mosques (somehow fabled to be
three hundred and sixty-five) was ever a probable
cause of riot.
But all this has been changed by the Russians.
One is now as safe in the Emir's territory as in Mos-
cow. His army, which we saw manœuvring hand-
somely under its native officers, has been organised
by Russian advice and is tamely uniformed and
armed in European fashion. Because he feels irri-
tated by the watchful supervision of the Muscovite;
because he is saddened by the vain show of emascu-
lated power, which is now all that remains of a
former omnipotence; because he is a lazy lover of
luxurious ease—for one or all of such surmised
reasons, the Emir has left the rather tawdry palace
just outside the city's walls, and now dwells in re-
tirement some thirty or forty miles away, returning
only on state occasions or when some unusual oc-
currence draws him to his capital. We were told
that such visits were not relished by his subjects,
over whom the vestige of his power may yet be
tyrannically exercised in many petty matters.
One must not, however, take too literally the
point of view adopted by European administrators,
or their native sycophants, in a subjugated Asiatic
state. Practices that seem the sheerest abuse of
power, even to the Russian, may yet be not disliked
in these communities, whose traditions and whose
present sentiments we but dimly apprehend. Nor