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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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knew Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi, Lahore, and all
the cities of the Punjab.
He asked me if Peking was as big a town as
Calcutta, and was much struck when I told him
the latter was the larger, repeating what I said
to the Andijanis. Peking is so distant that
these Central Asian merchants never visit it,
and the only accounts they have of it are from
the Chinese, who exaggerate to any extent the
greatness of the capital of China and of its
emperor.
The Andijanis were tall, handsome-looking
men, dressed in loose robes of cotton print, and
wearing long black leather boots with high
heels—exactly the same as the Cossacks wear,
but with the bottom part detached from the
upper. This bottom part was a slipper which
they kicked off before stepping on to the carpet,
leaving the long boot still on, but with a soft,
flexible foot.
After tea I again went to the Turk city to
look at the shops. The chief—in fact, almost
the only—articles sold here were cotton fabrics,
principally chintz. Some of them were remark-
ably pretty, with patterns of flowers, and others
handkerchiefs of many colours, arranged to-
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