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0097 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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population of unbelievers. The Christian official
will brother to the Mohammedan or Buddhist more
firmly than to his fellow-servant in Christ if so be
that worldly profit cometh from the heathen.
Now if humanity be wider and more vital than
dogma, this subordination of creed to life may be
accounted as progress. Whether it be so rated or
not, it is undoubtedly pleasant to put behind one
the dividing creeds of Christianity and Moham-
medanism, and ride forth merrily as we did, cheek
by jowl; Indian moonshee, good Mussulman; Chi-
nese moonshee, good Confucian; Cossack captain,
good Orthodox; Miles, good Anglican; Father
Hendricks and Anginieur, good Catholics; Mr.
——— (the Swede), good Lutheran; and myself,
good American. And our parting was the parting
of men who liked each other—of mutually helpful
beings thrown together, thrown apart, by the Power
which made your eyes brown or blue and your faith
whatever it may be.
Of this fraternal cavalcade all turned back after
a five-mile gallop save the two Catholics and the
American. Father Hendricks had agreed to travel
with us as far as Khotan—a most fortunate happen-
ing. Achbar was thus coached for two weeks before
it became necessary to put him into play; man-
darins, merchants, and horse-dealers were met in a
variety of tongues; our evening meal was spiced
with a *potpourri* of mechanics, philosophy, theo-
logy, history, philology, the germs of which were
drawn from Father Hendricks's Latin notes. An-
ginieur and I were unable to assimilate much of the
classic original, being far from our *Arma virumque*