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0090 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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happenings, and ready, if to her it shall seem good,
to write her criticism in the blood of men. Hence
much discretion, much patience on the part of Rus-
sia. The sixty of M. Petrovsky's consular guard,
and the similar body strangely stationed at Tash-
kurgan,—up there on the shoulder of the Pamirs a
hundred miles away,—must idle away hours, days,
years perhaps, before they shall be told to destroy
the Chinese force, whose mean appearance suggests
that butchers of men and butchers of cattle occupy
the same grade in Chinese philosophy. The Tibet
expedition of the British-Indian Government was
not yet undertaken. Its normal effect would be to
hasten the Cossacks' march of conquest from Kash-
gar to Khotan, as a reprisal at China's expense.
But the Japanese war, on the other hand, must tend
to check him, if for no other reason than that every
spring of action in St. Petersburg is now bent to-
wards Manchuria. Meantime it is not to be desired
by Russia that the minds of the Turkestan native
should, by intrusive travellers, be disturbed from
their simple conceptions. "We must be ruled by
somebody. The rulers of the earth are the Chinese,
who now possess us; the English, who possess
India, and who do not seem much concerned about
us, since there is but one sahib here, and he has no
soldiers; and the Russians, who possess all the
world to the north of us, and whose officer, with
soldiers and merchants at his back, is able to do
almost as he will with our Chinese masters. Besides
these three great peoples there are none other rulers
of men on earth."
Such being the sentiments of a million or more