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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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practices of systematised official generosity, then the
small lord welcomes the furtive coin, like the Eng-
lish official of yesterday, the Chinese official of to-
day, or the American alderman. Therefore the
Hindoo who honoured me by presenting a rupee
which, he well believed, would not lose the warmth
of his own palm ere it would be returned from mine,
had marked me as a satiated sahib.
When Father Hendricks had explained that I had
been complimented, not insulted, and when I had
come back from meditating upon the troubled his-
tory which the custom of the tribute money sug-
gested, I enjoyed all the more our cheerful entry into
ancient Khotan, survivor of many sister cities now
asleep under the moving sands. The welcoming
escort, eight or ten well-mounted, well-dressed men,
galloped bravely along, their white turbans and
bright-hued silken "Sunday clothes," conspicuous
and gay in contrast with the dirty cottons of the
increasing stream of natives flowing in and out of
the busy central bazaars. Quite in advance, with
much show of zeal and authority, rode the Russian
Aksakol, an Andijani, a trans-Alaï Turkestani, and
here on the dusty road to do us honour and much
lip-service. He had gone even farther than the
Hindoos to meet us, had seemed to take possession
of us, but we learned from Mir Mullah, who had
been sent on one march ahead, that it was the Hin-
doo, not the Andijani, who had placed at our dis-
posal a large house, with garden and court.
The appearance of this smart-looking chap, and
his many protestations, had much surprised us, until
we learned that he had been ordered by M. Pe-
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