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0196 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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humored, smooth-faced interpreter, also in a dark blue
skull-cap, but wearing a very light blue robe, which half
covered his purple trousers, and was itself partly concealed
by a black silk waistcoat. The interpreter led my horse to
a pleasant group of trees, and carefully turned him so that
I might dismount upon some felts spread on the ground.
Beside the felts a low platform was covered with rugs, on
which stood a little table a foot high and a red cushion on
which I was expected to lean. I sat alone on the platform,
as etiquette required; while the Beg and the interpreter sat
on the felts with Ibrahim, who, being often needed to help
me out when my Turki vocabulary failed, was fast acquiring
the habit of posing as a man of consequence. The rest of
the party, in robes of rusty brown, deep blue, and cinnamon
purple, formed a soberer group on the bare earth. Of course
we all sat cross-legged, or, more modestly and respectfully,
on our knees with our feet concealed as far as possible.
A "dastarkhan," or tablecloth, was produced at once from
behind a tree. It is hardly right to call it a "tablecloth," for
except in cases of great formality, where foreigners or Chi-
nese are concerned, it is always spread upon the floor. More-
over, the term includes the food as well as the cloth. The
"dastarkhan" is the alpha and omega of hospitality in Cen-
tral Asia, for it always appears as a guest arrives and as he
leaves. This first "dastarkhan" consisted of a red table-
cloth, showing more signs of use than of washing, on which
a servant placed a teapot, and dishes of cold boiled mut-
ton, curdled milk, walnuts, raisins, sugar (which is esteemed
a great delicacy), and the dry eleagnus fruit, dusty and taste-
less. In addition there were round sheets of bread like