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0067 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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steps leading to little temples with high, top-heavy silvered
domes; market-women passed down the canal with boat-
loads of spinach and turnips from the floating gardens in
the Dal Lake, mere rafts of water-plants strewn with a
little earth; merry children in twos or threes sang musically
at the tops of their voices; and men clothed in dirty white
walked briskly along the embankments beside the canals,
under the fine bur-covered chenar trees, just as old Hwen
Tsiang reports them to have done long ago. Except for
the fast walking, — fast compared to that of India, — the
general appearance was leisurely. The Kashmiris, as has
been said, have a reputation for laziness; but when I watched
them working, they seemed to show a good deal of energy
and steadiness, though perhaps it was only to keep warm.
Along the canal where we anchored, at least a dozen house-
boats were being built for the accommodation of summer
visitors. All the timber was sawed into planks on the spot
by hand. The men who worked the big saws, one at either
end, kept at work steadily, though the labor is tiresome,
and twice during ten minutes I noticed that when one of
a pair had to stop for something, his comrade went and
helped some one else.
Within the last few decades, a new factor has entered
into the geographic development of Kashmir — namely,
the attraction exercised by its climate and scenery upon the
British sojourners in India. The æsthetic element of love
of scenery and the rational element of choosing a place
for a home for the sake of its favorable climate, though
strictly geographic factors, exist only in highly civilized
communities. Therefore, in the past they have been of