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0185 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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at once struck me coming from China, was their
politeness to strangers. In passing through a
Chinese town the traveller has always to fear
insults from the mob. Here in Hami I could
move about if not unnoticed, at any rate
unmolested.

It is interesting to note that round Hami
was the seat of the Uighurs, the race from
whom the Mongols of Chengiz Khan acquired
what little learning and cultivation they ever
possessed. The men were tall, and some of
them really dignified. They were dressed in
long coloured cotton robes, and wore on their
heads either turbans or small skull caps. The
women were very different from the doll-like
Chinese women, with painted faces and wad-
dling about on contorted feet; or the sturdy,
bustling women of Manchuria; or the simple,
silly Mongol girls, with their great red cheeks
and dirty unintelligent faces. These Turki
women had good features, full round eyes, and
complexions not much darker than Greeks or
Italians. Dressed in a long loose robe not
confined at the waist, with their black tresses
of hair allowed to fall over their shoulders in
thick plaits, and wearing on their heads a