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0134 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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impulse as the disorder created by the struggle of the com-
peting nations of Russia and Japan for the coast of the
Pacific has outbalanced the influence of the Central Asian
railroad, and has turned considerable traffic to Karakorum.
When we were at Ladakh, the price of horses and grain
showed symptoms of rising, because it became known that
about fifteen hundred Mohammedan pilgrims returning
from Mecca to their homes in Chinese Turkestan were com-
ing up through India to Leh. Many would have gone by
way of Russia; but the examination of passports and the ex-
actions of petty officials, always much dreaded by the pil-
grims, were so much worse during the war, that they dared
not go that way. One of the pilgrims who overtook us had
been to Mecca twice. On his first journey he had traversed
Russia, so he told me. There he had been obliged to pay
twenty-two and a half dollars duty on nineteen dollars' worth
of cherished dates and other presents for his family from
the holy city of Mecca; and had been asked for his passport
whenever he left the train. Fearing that matters might be
worse in time of war, he had this time traveled through
India, and, like many others, was loud in his praise of that
country and its freedom from espionage. He could not
praise Bombay enough — its wide streets and fine buildings,
its freedom from prying police, its railroad station where
you knew that you were paying only the right price for your
ticket, and above all its economical bazaar, where, under
the strict rule of the Sahibs, an official list of the prices of
all articles is posted at frequent intervals, and there is
little or no bargaining.
The simple pilgrim's tale of his two journeys to Mecca,