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0125 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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a European in the hundreds of miles traversed since
we left Kashgar. Soon he came to our quarters,
truly a white man, a Russian; but whether a man
born in Siberia and never west of the Ural Mount-
ains, should be called European or Asiatic let each
determine as he will. A genteel chap he seemed,
and kindly, as we had reason to know when he gave
us Chinese money for Russian gold. His mission
was a queer one. On the surface, he had no other
occupation in life than to astound the natives by a
graphophone performance—a polyglot machine that
spoke Russian mostly, but also gave echoes of the
Boulevards and of the Bowery—words and music
that almost denied the existence of the deep Asiatic
world around us. Through a clever Andijani our
Russian friend seemed to be presenting the grapho-
phone as a miracle of his own people. No fee was
charged, at least while we were present, nor did it
seem possible that the venture into these remote
and small villages could have a commercial motive.
Rather it seemed political propaganda—eccentric,
childish, but perhaps effective. Had he been sent
by M. Petrovsky to follow our trail a bit? Or was
the probability of meeting him the secret of the
Consul General's opposition to our eastward wander-
ing? Certainly he and the Andijani would not be
holding hither and thither across the Turkestan
desert without knowledge and consent of M. Pe-
trovsky. And then, when later our troubles began
—but why speculate thus in the trackless air? More-
over we learned, the second day out, of a sounder
and more familiar reason than political misgiving to
explain such double-dealing as may have been meted