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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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failing effort nearly a hundred thousand people fled
over the mountains (or died while trying), in order
to join their kindred people in West Turkestan.
The last of these dramatic struggles began in 1864;
the Chinese were forced out of Dzungaria, and a few
years later Kashgaria was in the power of Yakoob
Beg, a name which has a familiar sound to ears of our
generation. His bloody exploits were known even
to the European world, and his sudden elevation to
regal power was the theme of much admiring com-
ment. But his glory was short. Back came the
Chinese and down went Yakoob Beg, his sun setting
in a sea of blood.
It was scarce thirty years ago that the Chinese
Peace was re-established, yet the province is now
ruled almost without a semblance of military power.
It seems to have been immemorially thus. When
the fire of rebellion flames, the great Empire throws
upon it quenching floods from its bottomless well
of humanity, and then awaits the next conflagration.
Something there is in this of justice—the genera-
tions which yield are not burdened with the support
of the armies of "benevolent assimilation," while
those who would strike at the great leviathan are
slaughtered as soon as armies may be brought from
the over-teeming fields within the wall.
And now the long drama, with an all-Asia caste,
is ended. When the curtain next rises we see
Europe on the stage modestly attired as a consul
and having about her a handful of soldiers, merely
guards, to preserve her dignity from breach. Be-
hold her in constant *pour parler* with the former
heroine of the play—the fair maid from far Cathay,
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