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0227 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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manliness. They are *men*, and at any rate,
they are very good fellows to meet and talk
with as one could do in a Kashgar *serai*. It
was noticeable, too, that they never lost their
respect either for themselves or for the English-
man they were talking with, so that we
could converse perfectly freely and openly.
Altogether I much enjoyed my talk with
them.

I was rather out of sorts the day after my
arrival, but on the second I went to call on the
Russian consul. The Afghan Aksakal had an
idea that Russians and Englishmen were like
cats and dogs in their relation towards each
other, and that they could not meet without
fighting. So, just as I was mounting my pony
to go off, he caught me by the arm and
whispered confidentially to me, "Now, sahib,
do your best to be polite, and don't go fighting
with that Russian." I found M. Petrovsky,
the Russian consul, living in a native house,
which, by improvements, he had made very
comfortable. He and his secretary, M. Lutsch,
received me most cordially, and sent for a
missionary, M. Hendriks, who lived close by,
to come and see me and hear the account of