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0090 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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for the sunshine is always warm in that dry, cloudless cli-
mate. When the little black cows had been driven and
pulled out of the way, I descended to an almost closed shed
used for the two or three hardy sheep and goats, and was
ushered, stooping, into a dark stable containing a little
pony, shaggy like all the animals. Bending low once more,
I climbed over a high sill, and was in the warm, close, fam-
ily living-room. Light and air came in through a hole in
the roof a foot square, surmounted by a chimney-pot a foot
high, made of three stones set up to keep out the snow.
A few bits of ragged cloth on the mud floor for sleeping
purposes, a half-dozen metal utensils, and an iron pot full
of Himalayan tea, kept warm over some embers of dried
dung, comprised all the visible equipment for housekeep-
ing. After my host had persuaded me to take a seat on the
floor, a half-palsied old woman insisted upon twice ladling
out for me a bowl of tea. It was surprisingly good in view
of the fact that a poor grade of leaves had been steeped
half an hour or more with milk, butter, salt, and soda. In
richer houses I was often served with tea which had been
improved by being churned violently in a slender, greasy
black churn, twenty inches long by four in diameter, in
order to mix the rancid butter well into the compound
before it was poured into the drinking-bowls.
As we sipped our tea, my host said that because of the
unusually stormy winter, the snow, which was then nearly
twelve feet deep, would not melt till June, two weeks later
than the regular time. He went on to say that the earth,
which we had seen scattered over many acres of the deep
snow, had been dug up in the fall, stored in the stables and