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0209 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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only sees a few travelling carts used for long
journeys.

On August 7 we arrived at Aksu, the largest
town we had yet seen. It had a garrison of
two thousand soldiers, and a native population
of about twenty thousand, beside the inhabitants
of the surrounding district. There were large
bazaars and several inns—some for travellers,
others for merchants wishing to make a pro-
longed stay to sell goods. A trader will bring
goods from a distant town, engage a room in
one of these inns or *serais*, and remain there
for some months, or even a year or two, till he
has sold his goods. He will then buy up a
new stock, and start off to another town. It
is in these *serais* that one meets the typical
travelling merchant of Central Asia; and often
have I envied these men their free, indepen-
dent, wandering life, interspersed with enough
of hardships, of travel, and risks in strange
countries to give it a relish. They are always
interesting to talk to: intelligent, shrewd, full
of information. Naturally they are well-disposed
to Englishmen, on account of the encourage-
ment we give to trade; but they are cos-
mopolitan, and do not really belong to any