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0170	The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1

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The Pulse of Asia : vol.1

アジアの鼓動 : vol.1

most important articles of Khirghiz diet. Then when the
servants had smacked their lips over the remains of the meal,
each man, with a look to see that his neighbors were ready,
raised his hands to his face, and all in unison stroked their
beards, with a muttered prayer to Allah.

During the next hour or two, big stories of brave deeds
and travel were told, or less praiseworthy talk of quarrels
and women kept the party animated at first, but soon the
kumiss took effect, and drowsiness began to prevail. At
length, to the relief of all, the host appeared, and we knew
that the real meal was at hand, for the tea-drinking is, after
all, but a new-fangled Russian notion. In his hand, at the
end of a spit, he bore a small piece of roasted fat from the
immense kidney-shaped tail of the sheep that we were to
eat. Pulling his big knife from his girdle, he cut off mor-
sels and placed one in the mouth of each guest as an appe-
tizer. Behind the host came his boy, bearing a basin and
a copper urn of water, from which in the oriental way he
poured water over the hands of one after another of the
squatting circle, beginning, of course, with the foreigner as
the most honorable. As the Khirghiz put out their hands
to wash, they made a peculiar gesture in throwing back their
long sleeves.

The washing over, dinner followed promptly — an enor-
mous quantity of boiled mutton in a huge wooden bowl,
flanked by two smaller bowls full of the broth in which the
meat had been cooked. The host waved his hand over the
bowl and cried, "Eat;" some one else cried, "Eat;" and then
each cross-legged Khirghiz cried, "Eat," and, whipping his
knife from his girdle, plunged his hand into the dish. The

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