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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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talk with him. He was an Afghan merchant, he said, and
the men of this house were Andijani merchants. He had
travelled through a great part of India, and knew Bombay,
Calcutta, Delhi, Lahore, and all the cities of the Punjab.
He asked me if Peking was as big a town as Calcutta. I
said, "No, nothing like so big." He was struck at this, and
told the Andijanis of it. He then asked if I had seen the
Katai-Badshah (the Chinese emperor) at Ba-jing (Peking). I
said, "No." He then asked me how many Englishmen there
were at Peking, and if they were merchants. I said we had
an Elchi there, like the Russians, and the French, and other
European nations. Peking is so distant that these Central
Asiatic merchants do not visit it, and the only accounts they
probably have of it are from the Chinese, who exaggerate to any
extent the greatness of the capital of China and its emperor.
I asked the merchant about the trade of the place, and he
said silk was the only thing produced. These Andijani
merchants spin the silk from the cocoons, but the Chinese
manufacture it. After a time some tea was brought us. I
asked if it was Indian or Chinese. They said it was Chinese,
but Indian was to be bought in the town.
The Andijanis were tall, handsome-looking men, dressed
in long robes of cotton print, and wearing high black leather
boots with high heels—exactly the same as the Cossacks
wear, but the bottom part was not attached to the upper.
It was a slipper which they kicked off before stepping on to
the carpet, leaving the long boot still on, but with a soft,
flexible foot.
After tea I again went to the Turk city to have a look
at the shops. The chief—in fact, almost the only—articles
sold here are cotton fabrics, principally chintz. Some of them
were remarkably pretty, with patterns of flowers, and others
handkerchiefs of many colours, arranged together in patterns
very tastefully.
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