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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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Chinese shops are more numerous here than in the "Old
City," and owing, perhaps, to the ampler light, looked neater
and more inviting. I do not like "shopping" as an occupa-
tion. But there was so much of quaint wares in the way of
dress, household utensils, &c., to be examined that the time
spent in looking for suitable presents to be sent homewards,
such as silks, &c., seemed all too short.
It struck me as an intelligent application to modern con-
ditions that among the neatly-docketed files of correspondence
which one of the merchants showed us in the pigeon-holes
of his snug office, there were letters sent to him by business
friends in Ho-nan through Shanghai and the Indian Post
Office. The addresses on the envelopes, neatly printed in
English, gave the directions as to the route via Colombo-
Rawalpindi-Gilgit and the numerous "c/o's" needed for
safe transit with far greater clearness and accuracy than
one is accustomed to look for in the case of native Indian
correspondents.
Passing on from the shops we paid the intended visit to
Mr. Macartney's Chinese friend, Liu-Lai-chin, who owns a
modest but clean and well-arranged house close to the
City Prefect's Yamen. Our host, apart from his official
work, has no mean reputation as an artist, and I had
already had occasion to admire the charmingly decorated
fan which he had painted as a present for Mrs. Macartney.
Sitting in the well-lit and large room which served as
office, studio, and drawing-room, it was a pleasure to ex-
amine the delicately worked scrolls and paintings with
which the artist-official had adorned his walls. Even
more, perhaps, I enjoyed watching his eager and animated
conversation with Mr. Macartney. It turned in part on
antiquarian questions which my references to Hiuen-
Tsiang's account of the "New Dominions" had raised.
Though only small portions of the discourse could be made
intelligible to me through Mr. Macartney's kindness, it was
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