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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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supplied an equally welcome complement to my "Chota
Hazri." As I sat at work I could see and hear the little
cavalcades of cultivators and their women-folk as they gaily
rode along the road between the river and the garden, bring-
ing their produce to the city markets. Only beggars seemed
to walk on foot, and even they were often provided with
donkeys. Breakfast assembled us as the morning wore on,
in a stately little arbour, where rows of tall poplars planted
in a square, after the fashion of all Turkestan gardens, gave
grateful shade at almost all hours. There were luckily no
morning papers and daily mails to delay attention to the
work of the 'Ustads,' who had in the meantime leisurely
settled down to their several tasks. A short stroll taken
round the courtyards after breakfast, usually in Mr. Macart-
ney's company, enabled me to control the progress—or
otherwise—that their labours of repair or construction were
making.
Then my friend retired to his 'Daftar' to write his
reports or to go into the cases of his polyglot clientèle from
across the Indian borders. Punjabi traders, Hindu money-
lenders from Shikarpur, Ladaki carriers, Kanjuti settlers in
Raskam, and hoc genus omne—all had occasion at one time
or other to seek the presence of the 'Mulki Sahib' (Political
Officer) whom the 'Sirkar's' paternal care had planted far
away in the Turkestan capital to protect their persons and
interests. I myself, though plentifully provided with writing
work, ordinarily managed to give an hour or two about mid-
day to the study of Turki texts with grave Mullah Abdul
Kasim, a shining academical light of the chief Madrasah of
Kashgar. Muhammadan learning, such as the country knows
in these days of infidel rule, is purely theological. I have no
doubt that the good Mullah would have preferred a discussion
on a knotty passage of some Arabic manual of religious law
to our readings of vulgar Turki, even though they concerned
the exploits of that royal champion and martyr of Islam, holy
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