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0295 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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wife our present of three cents. Her glee over the money
was equally to be remembered, for it meant as much as a
dollar would to a poor farmer's wife at home.

Patience, contentment, and good temper are so nearly
universal among the Chantos that it is hard to give concrete
examples of them. They are like an atmosphere which one
feels so continuously that he ceases to be conscious of it.
When I forgot to dismiss men with whom I had been talk-
ing, I found that they would stand patiently waiting for
an hour. The merchants in the bazaar, and even the little
melon-venders in the dusty streets, sit quietly for hours
with no sign of restlessness. If you forget to pay a guide
to-day, he patiently waits till to-morrow. That the people
are contented, as well as gentle and timid, is evident from
the readiness with which they submit to any sort of govern-
ment, no matter how corrupt. When the Chinese retook
Kashgar, thirty years ago, after its occupation in the seven-
ties by Yakub Beg, the Turki conqueror from Andizhan
in Russian Turkestan, there was practically no fighting.
"What soldiers there were," says Younghusband, "when
they heard the Chinese were close to the town, hastily
threw aside their uniforms, or disguises as soldiers, and
assuming the dress of cultivators, walked about the fields
in a lamb-like and innocent manner. The Chinese entered
the town, and everything went on as if nothing had hap-
pened. . . . The shopkeeper sold his wares, and the
countryman plowed his fields, totally indifferent as to who
was or who was not in power." In regard to good tem-
per, little need be said except that it is the rule among the
Chantos. Quarrels, it is true, occur now and then, and the