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チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1

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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1

チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1

in Russia. The old army rifles, now discarded,
are tantalisingly numerous in the arsenals, and
tantalisingly cheap, if only one could obtain per-
mission to buy them. But even for a Russian officer
such permission is by no means a matter of course—
and only the War Minister may give it. Of course,
a dealer cannot handle military arms—only sporting
pieces and pistols; perhaps you may buy the shot-
guns (smooth-bores) without permit: for pistols,
written permission is required, and report must be
made of the purchase. The impromptu is not en-
couraged in Russia.
Surely, surely, the Russian, soldier or civilian,
will woefully lack initiative—surely he is but a weak
competitor with, let us say, the American, if meas-
ured man for man in the strife of war or industry.
A hard saying, it may be thought, when one's mind
dwells upon the brilliant intellects which may be
met in St. Petersburg, or the faithful, patient moujik
who is seen all over the great Empire. A hard say-
ing, it may seem, when one thinks also of the cour-
teous, watchful, intelligent officers who administer
the wide lands through which our journey takes us
—who have created the substantial little white cities
that guard the big black native towns. But they
are too few—too few. And it remains, that if the
average individual were strong in himself, then we
should not see the cancelled columns of newspapers
in hotel reading-rooms—for the man in the street
would then be wise enough to read whatever the
London, Paris, or New York papers chose to pub-
lish. We would not see the Jewish woman I chanced
to meet in the Moscow police office, asking in vain

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