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0033 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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everything we possessed, feel our clothes to see
what sort of cloth they were made of, and
question us unceasingly about our ages, where
we had come from, how long we meant to stay,
and where we were going. Even when we had
cleared our room, they did not desist from
pestering us, but, while we were undressing,
poked holes with their fingers in the paper
windows, and then applied their eyes to these
easily-made peep-holes. Looking up in the
middle of our ablutions, we would see a mass
of eyes—just the eyes, with nothing else visible
—peering at us. The effect was peculiarly
irritating, and we would dash out with furious
remonstrance ; but as soon as we were inside
again they would come back exactly as before,
and we had eventually to resign ourselves to
the inevitable.
But these are the ordinary experiences of
every traveller in China, and I am only re-
peating what has been described a hundred
times before. We were kept a week at
Mukden, making up a caravan of mules to
take us into the mountains. We accordingly
had time to see the sights of the place, and go
some excursions in the neighbourhood. Of