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0373 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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Kwen Lun range, and from the high Tian Shan plateau and
the Pamirs, make life easy and care-free, and the people are
mild and open-handed. In the Turfan basin, on the con-
trary, the struggle for life is more relentless; the farmer must
search for every drop of water above ground and below. And
so, as it seemed to me during my too brief stay of twenty
days, the mildness of the Chanto immigrants from the Lop
basin who have peopled Turfan has changed to stolidity;
and their open-handed hospitality to grudging calculation
of the chances of profit. The people are not rude, nor in-
hospitable; but because life is hard, they are careful as
to how they waste their time and substance. It seemed to
me, too, — though my own prepossession may have been
father to the thought, — that in their indifference, their
addiction to drugs, their more degrading vices, and perhaps
in other ways, the people of Turfan have become slightly
differentiated from their cousins in the Lop basin, and have
become more like the Persians. Possibly the change is due
to contact with the Chinese, and not, as I am inclined to
believe, to physical circumstances.

However it may be as to the people, there can be no ques-
tion as to the Persian character of the scenery. At Doksun,
or "Ninety," the first town which we reached in Turfan, I
found the days so warm at the end of February that the
most pleasant place to sit at noon was on the flat mud roof.
As I looked abroad over an ornamental parapet of sun-
dried brick, a dreamy haze softened, but did not blur, the
rounded outlines of the pale blue Desert Mountains to
the south. Far to the north and west the snowy tops of
higher peaks, rising 12,000 or 14,000 feet, gleamed fitfully