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0175 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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would take no pay whatever, though it was often offered. So
freely does one man make use of another's horses that not
infrequently, when we passed a new herd, some one would
say, "My horse is bad," and would dash off to catch an-
other with a fish-pole. I do not know how universal the
custom is, but during our journey the changing of horses
played so important a part that the stock remark was not
about the weather, but "How is your 'animal' to-day?
Has he a good gait?"

The sports as well as the labors of the Khirghiz result
from the physiographic conditions which induce nomad-
ism. Horses and horseback riding are the one idea of these
people, and their greatest sport is the "bagai." I saw this
interesting game in the Alai valley, close to the border of
Bokhara. As we came down the hillside to the smooth plain, a
crowd of distant horsemen seemed to be standing motionless,
until one darted out, and the whole fifty or sixty dashed after
him. Evidently they were chasing a leader in some game,
and the leader kept changing. Drawing nearer, we saw that
two galloping horsemen had detached themselves from the
crowd and, as they rode toward us, were struggling for a
large black object bigger than a sheep. Suddenly one of
them threw his leg over this, gave it a jerk which nearly dis-
mounted his rival, wheeled his horse to the left, and, dash-
ing up to me, threw the thing at my horse's feet. It was
a black calf, headless and footless, and partly skinned. At
once three or four men who galloped up behind the leader
leaned from their moving horses and attempted to pick it
up. Two grasped it, twenty or thirty others surrounded
them, and all struggled to seize the calf and carry it off. In