The Land of the Lamas: Notes of a Journey Through China, Mongolia and TibetCentury Company, 1891 - 399 páginas |
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Página 211 - The tillable lauds are of small extent and are all under cultivation, so it is extremely difficult for any one to add to his fields, which as a general rule produce only enough to support one small family. If at the death of the head of the family the property was divided among the sons, there would not be enough to supply the wants of all of them if each had a wife and family. Moreover, the paternal abode would not accommodate them. The secular experience of the whole human race showing that several...
Página 2 - For dressing and living like a Chinaman I was encumbered neither with clothes nor foreign stores, bedding, tubs, medicines nor any of the other endless impedimenta which so many travellers consider absolute necessities.
Página 58 - ... Koko-nor, an official known to the Tibetans and Mongols as the Amban. As this magnate was strongly opposed to foreigners, Mr. Rockhill made off from Hsining as soon as possible, going to Lusar, a village near Kumbum. Kumbum is a great religious centre, and he was fortunate enough to be present on the I2th of the first moon, when the Chinese in every village and town of the empire celebrate the dragon festival. After looking through one of the temples, he and those who accompanied him walked round...
Página 20 - Mr. Rockhill says (Land of the Lamas, pp. 19-20): "The road between T'ung-kwan and Si-ngan fu, a distance of 1 10 miles, is a fine highway — for China — with a ditch on either side, rows of willowtrees here and there, and substantial stone bridges and culverts over the little streams which cross it. The basin of the Wei ho, in which this part of the province lies, has been for thousands of years one of the granaries of China. It was the colour of its loess-covered soil, called 'yellow earth'...
Página 214 - ... European of great experience and long residence in these countries, whose personal conviction, though adverse to marriage in his own case, is strictly monogamous ; nevertheless, he feels compelled to admit that the two systems, working side by side, mutually compensate the evils of each, and that both are reasonable under the circumstances, and probably requisite. The subject raises many curious and by no means frivolous questions, but I cannot help thinking it singular that the conduct of courtship...
Página 256 - ... soldiers. Talking of wild tribes to the north of the Horba country, this official assured Mr. Rockhill that men in a state of primitive savagery were found in Tibet. Lu himself had seen a number of wild men who had been driven out of woods by a forest-fire on the flank of Mount Ka-lo, east of Kanze".
Página 334 - ... better. The sheets are wound on the axle from right to left, and the wheel when set in motion must revolve in the opposite way, so...
Página 79 - ... he lets it melt in his bowl, drinking some of the tea and blowing the melted butter to one side; and then adds a handful of tsamba from the small ornamented bag in which it is kept. He deftly works with his right hand the tea, butter, and tsamba into a ball of brown dough which he eats, drinking as much tea as is necessary to wash down the sodden lump.
Página 334 - ... the gate of birth among men is closed; by pad the gate of birth among brute beasts is closed; by me the gate of birth among the pretas (Yi-dag) is closed, and by Hurn the gate of birth in the netherworld is closed.
Página 2 - ... in 1845, had proved successful, made me choose this route as the one I would follow. In the winter of 1888, having resigned my post of Secretary of Legation, I made preparations for my journey. The route selected was the highway, which, passing by Hsi-an Fu and Lan-chou...