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0100 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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cotton buyer,—but he was some sort of Asiatic
Russian. No true European residents are found
east of Kashgar. At Yarkand you are in Asia, *rien
que ça*. Our best acquisition made here was Mo-
hammed Joo—Kashmir man, Mohammedan horse-
trader, follower of Captain Deasey in his journey
across Western Tibet and Turkestan. He had just
come down from the Himalayas—a week's softening
in Yarkand was enough for such a sturdy traveller.
Danger and toil at twelve dollars per month were
preferred to inglorious ease and nothing per day.
He and Lassoo live in our memories as associate
heroes and saviours. We learned later that the
Kashmir man generally is, in North India, con-
sidered to be a commercial craven, fair prey for the
warlike Dogra people, who now rule him. But
Mohammed Joo had sucked strength into his bones
from a thousand mountain-sides. In the morning
he rose with might. The day was filled with his
good counsel; by watchfulness he brought peace for
the night. Whether his heart would be stout against
the glint of steel or the loud report of powder, I do
not know, but as against the menace of starvation
and death in loneliness, his courage failed not. And
what a master of horses! He soon out-generalled
good Mir Mullah at every point and modestly took
away from him, at our direction, the title and func-
tion of *caravanbashi*. The wonders of trans-
portation contained in the history of Asiatic horde-
movements become in part understandable, when
one sees Gordian knots untied without swords;
horses made to ascend impossible mountains, yet
without Pegasus' wings; hoofs shod under con-