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0191 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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also; but they cannot kill any animals or cut any trees.
They seemed desperately poor according to our western
standards, but were far from being in want. Like most of
the people of the Lop basin, they had plenty to eat, enough
to wear, and a place to sleep, and their further wants were
few. Later, we met other people who work in the same
almost slavish way for the rich land-owners. Though a few
expressed mild complaints, the majority of the Chantos
seemed entirely satisfied with their lot.

The name "Chanto," or "Chan-teu," as Younghusband
gives it, is a Chinese word, meaning "Turban-wearer." It
is applied by the Celestials to non-Chinese Mohammedans
of the Lop basin, Turfan, and a few oases to the north and
east. The Mohammedans, though they belong to a single
race and number from one and a half to two million, have
no name for themselves other than local designations, such
as Kashgari, Khotani, Turfanlik, and so forth, derived
from the names of their cities. Nor, so far as I can learn,
do the people of Russia, or India, or any neighboring coun-
try, except China, have a specific name for them, and one
finds no proper designation in books of travel. Their lack
of a name, except among their Chinese rulers, shows how
little individuality they have as a race, and how their iso-
lation in separate, self-sufficient oases surrounded by vast
deserts has prevented the growth of national feeling.

The Chantos, as it seems most fitting to call this nameless
people, are generally supposed to be an Indo-European
race, closely allied to the original stock from which sprang
the races of western Asia and Europe. They have, to be
sure, become more or less mixed with various invading