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0070 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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the Russian station of Swanka, situated among
some low rather bare hills. There were
stationed here at the time of our visit about
three hundred Cossacks. Some low rough
barracks had just been constructed for them,
and small cottages for the officers were dotted
about. The colonel's house was larger and
better built, but all of them were of the rough
simple description one would expect to find at
a distant frontier outpost.

Here we were most cordially received by the
Russian colonel. Russians never err in want
of cordiality—to Englishmen especially—and
in this remotest part of Asia, thousands of
miles from either St. Petersburg or London,
we met, uninvited guests as we were, with real
warmth of reception. The colonel's house had
about it no superfluity of luxury. It had glass
windows and a stove—which are luxuries the
Russian would not have met with if he had
visited my late headquarters in Chitral—but
the walls and the floors were quite bare, and
the furniture of the very simplest. There was
only one room, a part of which was partitioned
off into a bedroom and dressing-room, and the
whole place was crowded up with military