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0182 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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acter of the women. They are obliged to rely more or less
upon themselves, and to take the initiative at times. In
their care of the flocks and herds, it often happens that the
men are all far away throughout the whole day, and at cer-
tain seasons, when the grass must be cut in the valleys, many
of them are away for several days. At such times, the women
are responsible for everything. I have come to an encamp-
ment of seven or eight tents where no one was left except
a few girls and one or two old women. The smaller girls,
not unnaturally, were afraid of us; but the newly wedded
wife of the chief man, a pretty girl of sixteen, entertained
us most graciously, and by the time that her husband and
the other men arrived, had supper ready for them and
us. A veiled village woman would have screamed and run
away at our approach. Besides all this, the occupation of
the men with the horses and larger animals leaves to the
women the care of the sheep when the flocks are driven
home at evening. And, finally, it is always the wife who has
the responsibility of taking down and packing the kibitka,
and setting it up in a new place, while the husband takes
care of the herds. All these differences between the women
of Tian Shan and those of the villages are the direct results
of nomadism, and all of them tend to make the Khirghiz
wife stronger, more capable, and more self-reliant, and
hence a better mother.
In view of all this, is it going too far to say that the rela-
tively free, warm-hearted, and affectionate spirit shown by
the Khirghiz in their relation to one another is, in part at
least, a geographic fact, the result of physical surround-
ings? In Karategin, at the eastern corner of Bokhara, I