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0201 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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walnut and mulberry trees shown in the photograph oppo-
site page 146. Tea, both sweetened and unsweetened, was
served with walnuts. The chief dish was cold mutton, of
which each guest took a bone in his fingers. The amount
of bread and meat which courtesy demanded should be
placed before the Beg and me was, by careful estimate, be-
tween fifty and sixty times as much as we ate.

Judging from my experience that day, the life of the
Chantos consists chiefly of eating and drinking. And in-
deed it does. Except for a poor sort of music and dancing,
they appear to have no sources of pleasure except those of
the body. Eating plays so important a part in life that the
omission of the "dastarkhan" becomes an insult. As I was
leaving Sanju in slow procession with all the dignitaries of
the town, including a Chinese official on a big gray horse
all jangling with bells, the Beg suddenly hastened ahead
at a gallop, and a servant cantered away in the other direc-
tion. Soon a perspiring footman ran by with a forgotten
red tablecloth under his arm; and near the last field a
horseman with a steaming teapot dashed past. The cause
of the commotion appeared on the edge of the desert, where
we found the felts, table, bread, raisins, nuts, sugar, and tea
of a complete "dastarkhan."

Having finished the hot tea and said farewell to the dig-
nitaries of Sanju, I rode eastward among the barren foot-
hills of the Kwen Lun range to Puski in the next valley,
where I rejoined the main caravan. The scenery was like
that of Arizona, low, desert mountains covered scantily
with weeds or low bushes of the sage type. The perpetual
haze hemmed us in, making everything dull and uniformly