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0055 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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quickly that we are geographers? Do they think that we
have come to spy out the land?"
Meanwhile they had reached us. One brandished an
official-looking document suggesting a warrant; a second
waved a photograph; a third held a drawing like the plan
of a ship; and the others carried open letters. They all
thrust their papers into our unwilling hands, and in the
broken English now spoken by many natives of Kashmir,
shouted in rivalry:—
"Master! Master! read this!"—"This my boat; very
best boat."—"Master, you looking my boat. Twenty
rupee."—"I got best boat. I am six men."—"Come,
master, see my boat!"
In spite of protests they escorted us to the village; helped
us through the mud, which was six inches deep; led us be-
tween the two-story houses of wood, covered with pyrami-
dal thatched roofs green with grass; and brought us to the
collection of house-boats on the muddy river. We thought
of the jolting of the two-story, two-wheeled carts in which
we had been traveling, and of what would await us at our
destination, Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir, either a poor
and expensive hotel, or its alternative, a wet camp with no
proper servants. As speedily as dignity would allow, we
yielded to our captors, engaging Subhana Benares, the boat-
man who claimed to be six men, together with his father,
four brothers, a sister, two wives of some of the family, a
modest house-boat with four small rooms roofed with reed-
matting, a smaller kitchen-boat where the natives were to
live and cook, and a rowboat,—for all of which, including
people and boats, we were to pay thirty-five rupees (eleven