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0297 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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to move a large quantity of earth, and they went at it
heartily like Englishmen. My Guddee servants [from India]
used to notice how differently they worked from the Indian
coolies' listless, idle way. What [three men] did in one day
would have taken a dozen coolies to do in the same
time. . . . They labored just as hard when their em-loyer,
a shoemaker, . . . was out of the way, as when he was
present, . . . as I myself noticed."
Turning now to the bad qualities of the Chantos, I have
already referred to timidity and untruthfulness. In the
latter respect they do not seem to be so bad as some other
Orientals, for instance the Kashmiris and Persians. My
men, thanks to the fine qualities of their half-breed Ladakhi
chiefs, Rasul and Ibrahim, never cheated me at all, so far as
I could detect. One annoying trait which the Chanto would
probably class under courtesy rather than dishonesty, and
which probably is really due to timidity, is the vexatious
way in which the native always agrees with any one more
powerful than himself, or gives the answer which he thinks
the other expects. As Dunmore puts it:—
"If I were to say, 'I suppose it's always hazy and cloudy
at Sanju?' — the native would reply, 'Always.' And if [my
companion] half an hour afterwards were to say, 'I sup-
pose it is very seldom you get such cloudy, hazy weather
here,' the same native would reply, 'Very seldom.'"
Provincialism and childishness are not exactly bad quali-
ties, but they do not add to a people's strength. Whenever
we met a wild animal, I was struck with the childish way
in which even old men would shout and wave their hands
"to see it run." Lack of initiative and of curiosity are to be