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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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tribes in the corner of the plateau still under Chinese
direct control. M. Petrovsky also called in formal
fashion, mounted Cossacks riding before and behind
a quaint low carriage which looked homesick. He
said that since he had so promised he would write his
Aksakol (=white-beard=chief of merchants) at
Khotan to advise him of our coming. And, in-
deed, the sleek Andijani who spoke for the Consul
in Khotan was on the qui vive and watched us well,
and did naught else. Whether our later misfor-
tunes were in any way connected with the sealed
letter, or were caused by the left hand of Chinese
policy undoing the work of the right hand we never
knew. Most probably 't was only the duplicity of
the timid native Begs which undid us.
A pleasant visit we had from a young Mandarin
of great name, acting as mayor of Kashgar, under
general direction of the Provisional Governor
(Taotai). This young man was the son of a Man-
chu general who reconquered, forty years ago, all
Turkestan from the failing power of Yakoob Beg,
whose rise and fall make the last great epic of ambi-
tion which has been played across these sands and
within these waving oases.
While this delicate-featured, refined, peace-loving
Asiatic was making his call, there came another
caller, another Asiatic (?) whose personality, in its
strong contrast with that of the young mayor,
seemed to present the whole Russo-Chinese ques-
tion. He was a captain of Cossacks, who might
have been the original of the Russian officer in Kip-
ling's powerful sketch, The Man Who Was. He
had entertained us with song and drink, with tossing
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