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0093 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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us up on the strong arms of his soldiers, who caught
us in breathless fall, as rubber balls are caught; he
had reviewed military history in masterly order, and
in the two languages we used; he had declared, in
good-humoured banter, that might is right, that his
people had the might to take what they wished, and
that they wished much of Asia. His manner was
nervous with surcharge of energy; his spirit was
vexed by inaction. He was impatient Aggression.
The young Chinese aristocrat was patient Resist-
ance, and between them Colonel Miles was interested
Peacemaker. A fourth characteristic personality in
the international good-bye assemblage was Father
Hendricks, Hollander by birth, Christian priest by
profession, Mongolian citizen by love of his heart,
dweller in Kashgar by love of change, I suppose.
A good man, a polyglot, a missionary without fol-
lowers, a priest without a bishop, reporting only to
the great one in Rome, and to him only as moved
by the spirit; a European plunged deep into Asia
for thirty years; a lone man dreaming new sciences
out of multitudinous but inaccurate data; hated by
Petrovsky because he represented something other
than Russia; liked by Miles for the same reason,
and because of his goodness, his versatility, and his
loneliness; loved by some of the natives, who con-
sumed his medicines; celebrating mass on a table
whose untidiness measured the loss of one Dutch
trait by a lifetime in Asia. Such was Father
Hendricks.
If his heart harboured any malice, 't was some-
thing impersonal in the way of Russophobia—justi-
fied, he believed, by biblical condemnation. "They