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0149 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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spect must be shown to me. Then he would
pretend to be very obsequious, and bow and
kow-tow in the most servile manner. It was
hard to know whether to be angry with him
or to laugh; he was always so very comical.
There would be a twinkle in his eye the whole
time, and now and then, while all this panto-
mime was going on, he used to say to me in
English (his English), "I think master belong
big gentleman; no belong small man." He
thought I was a big gentleman quite off his
head, though, to go wandering about in such
out-of-the-way places, instead of staying com-
fortably at home; and he used to say, "I
think master got big heart; Chinese mandarin
no do this."

We were now gradually approaching the
heart of the Gobi, and the aspect of the
country became more and more barren; the
streams disappeared, and water could only be
obtained from the rough wells or water-holes
dug by former caravans. No grass could be
seen, and in its place the country was covered
with dry and stunted plants, burnt brown by
the sun by day and nipped by the frost by
night. Not a sound would be heard, and