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0036 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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desecrating locomotive. The bazaars are like ani-
mated tunnels, being narrow streets covered over
with matting or boughs that the sun's intemperate
rays may not burn up the busy movement of parti-
coloured people who patter back and forth, passing
the squatting merchants. You enter by way of
melons—quantities of them, on both sides the big
city gate; you progress through brass-work, iron-
mongery, saddlery, butchery, cookery; then you
are in a sort of focus of bazaars, and the appetising
fumes from open-air restaurants may float tempta-
tion in half-a-dozen directions. Near by are sweet-
meats, then brilliant skullcaps, then European
calicos, then true, fascinating Bokhara silks; then,
around a corner, are equally fascinating rugs, then
sweetmeats, then spices, vegetables and all garden
truck and then—and then—so it goes through all the
series of wants of this Mussulman ant-hill. Not many
women are seen, but the colour-effects of the crowd
are made startling by the backs of men clad in
gay hues. At the silk counters are a few ladies,
formless in their all-enclosing cloaks, the long black
veils falling like a great ink stain on a coloured page.
Through little windows sewed jealously in the veil-
ing, or around its perilous edge, their unseen eyes
peer at the soft tissues of strange designs, and their
low, controlled voices urge a zestful bargain to tardy
conclusion,—so sweet is that universal communion
between Possession and Desire. The very close
concealment of women's faces seems here to be pro-
portioned, when compared with fashion in other
Mussulman cities, to the reputation for superior
sanctity so long enjoyed by Bokhara. Its teachers