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The Pulse of Asia : vol.1 |
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related as we sat under a mulberry tree in a narrow valley
at the northern base of the Kwen Lun mountains, contained
an epitome of the geography of Asia. The component ele-
ments of his conception were first himself and his Chanto
people, the mild, courteous, not over-valiant, and none too
honest product of generations of life in the sheltered, unin-
spiring environment of irrigated oases among the deserts
of Central Asia. Closely connected with his daily life was
the government, of whose rapacious officials he mildly
complained: the Chinese, whose slow, imperturbable, ever-
persistent tenacity and economy are perhaps the result of
thousands of years of the dull, hard struggle of a teeming
population against overcrowding in a land of splendid pos-
sibilities, uninfluenced by great changes either from within
or from without. A more important factor in his life was
his religion, the fanatical creed which seems to have im-
bibed its nature from the stern inexorableness of the desert,
on the one hand, and the utter relaxation of the oasis, on
the other. Drawn by religious zeal, and repelled by Chi-
nese stolidity, our mild Chanto pilgrim started westward
on his first pious journey, following the easy route along
the line of oases at the northern base of the great central
mountain system of Asia to the Caspian Sea, and so across
Trans-Caucasia to the Black Sea and Arabia, and finally
back again. There was much that he liked, and the rail-
road was a keen delight; but he could not understand the
inquisitive, aggressive new race of fair-haired men from the
north, and could not protect himself from the half-Russian-
ized races who fleeced him right and left. When again he
was about to go to Mecca, he heard of new factors, a race
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