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0209 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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a hundred soldiers in gaudy red and blue suits marshaled in
two lines on either side of the road. Every one else dis-
mounted, but I knew that I "must staying on horse." As I
advanced between the lines, the soldiers stood at attention;
triangular red dragon-banners were waved; six-foot trum-
pets brayed; and my horse jumped at the sound of a salute
of great cannon crackers. Across a little bridge over a
muddy irrigation ditch three blue-topped, two-wheeled carts
came to meet me, followed by forty or fifty Chinese officials
and military officers, all in blue, and many with huge smoke-
colored goggles. I met the first cart at the head of the line
of soldiers. As it stopped, I dismounted from my horse,
while the governor, with the button of a high mandarin in
his hat and a beautiful silk dragon on his breast, got out
of the cart. We feelingly shook hands with ourselves, bowed
low again and again, and said many sweet things each in
his own language. Then he took me gently by the hand and
led me to a little red pavilion erected for the occasion by the
roadside. There, with two mandarins from the other carts,
we drank tea and tried to talk. I spoke in one dialect of
Turki or in English to Rasul, he in another dialect of Turki
to the official interpreter, and he in Chinese to the governor.
The conversation was undeniably diluted, but as Rasul put
it: "You plenty sweet matter telling to governor. I think
he liking very much. You making talk to soldier-man very
good. Yes, that was very best. All men very pleased." He
himself had suggested that I thank the soldiers as well as
the officials for coming out to meet us. As we rode to our
quarters in a shady pavilion surrounded by a moat in the
centre of a large garden, the attendants pointed out parts