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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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a good deal of the personal history of most of the leading men
in Kashmir. On the Central Asian question he spoke very
freely, and said that we English always suspected the Russians
of designs upon India, but that in reality nothing was further
from their minds.
But comprehensive as was M. Petrovsky's knowledge of
India and Central Asian affairs, I am not sure that they were
what chiefly attracted him ; and I am inclined to think that his
heart really lay in scientific pursuits. In his library were
large numbers of books of science, and his room was full of
instruments of various descriptions—an astronomical telescope,
barometers, thermometers of all kinds, an apparatus for
measuring the movements of earthquakes, and various other
instruments. He was evidently a man of considerable attain-
ments. The consulate had been established in Kashgar about
seven years, and both M. Petrovsky and M. Lutsch had been
there from the beginning. They both understood English and
read it, but had had little practice in speaking it. The Chinese
they did not speak of at all favourably. According to them,
they were lazy and corrupt, and administered the country very
badly.
M. Hendriks had been in Kashgar for two or three years,
and had previously belonged to a mission establishment on the
borders of Mongolia. He was a man of varied accomplishments,
who had travelled much, and who spoke or read most languages
from Russian to Tibetan. So far he had had little success in
actually converting the people of Kashgar, who are very
apathetic, and little inclined to think much about religion of
any sort, much less to take the trouble of changing that in
which they were brought up. But M. Hendriks was a good
doctor as well as a missionary, and often spent his time in
visiting and prescribing for the sick, in this way doing much
practical good.
When I returned to the serai from my visit to the consul,
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