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0293 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
The Pulse of Asia : vol.1 / 293 ページ(白黒高解像度画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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If we examine in detail some of the characteristics men-
tioned in the list, it appears that hospitality and courtesy
are the natural results of gentleness and good temper, com-
bined with timidity. I often felt as if the cordiality of
my reception among the poorer people were more or less
a cloak for their fears. They brought their best, in part at
least, because they dared not do otherwise. We stopped
one day at an unusually isolated little farmhouse near the
ruins of Choka to ask some questions about the region.
While the half-blind old peasant talked with us, his wife,
a mild little woman, ran excitedly to and fro. With the
help of her daughter-in-law, who kept in the background
out of sight, she produced a ragged felt, a bowl of sour
milk, and some hot bread, very full of hulls. Being inter-
ested, I sat down, whereupon my men asked whether there
were no fruit.
"No," answered the farmer in some trepidation, "but,"
with an air of relief, "there is corn."
After further excitement in the house, the corn was
brought to us under the trees, little hot yellow ears, roasted
in the husk, and carried from the fire on the extended hand
and long sleeve of the old woman. Fifty feet from us she
halted, called softly to her husband, and handed it over to
him. It would not have been proper for her to come nearer,
in spite of her age. As I ate the corn, tough but sweet, the
fears of the timid peasants faded. Out of real hospitality,
they brought what was to them a great luxury, hot eggs,
roasted in primitive style in the ashes. It was worth a day's
ride to see the genuine affection of the gentle old couple,
and the trustful way in which the man handed over to his