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From Tonkin to India by the Sources of the Irawadi, January '95-January '96


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Das historische Buch konnen zahlreiche Rechtschreibfehler, fehlende Texte, Bilder, oder einen Index. Kaufer konnen eine kostenlose gescannte Kopie des Originals (ohne Tippfehler) durch den Verlag. Nicht dargestellt. 1898 edition. Auszug: ...of their number beating a tom-tom with a curved stick. The procession entered each house in turn; the family altar was decked, and cinders were placed on the tripod. When the leader had tasted a proffered cup of wine, he held it aloft while pronouncing a parenthetical litany, in each pause of which children, covered with flour and holding torches, chanted a word in chorus meaning "present." I imagine these to have represented the good and evil spirits invoked. The incantation over, the instruments were given a final shake, a circuit of the room was made, and exeunt. At the chiefs they have to perform a dance in addition, which they execute with a bowing motion, stooping with outstretched hand as if to pick something up, in a manner precisely similar to what I have seen in Thibet. The function ended round an obo outside the village, where torches were fixed to a post, and children flung into the flames a powder which produced a white flash. The whole observance was a continuation of the Hopatie, which though in China of only one day's duration is here prolonged over several. The road traversed on the 18th (August) was good but monotonous, and nightfall found me the guest of a Thibetan family in a lonely little hut. The " Doctor" had taken a short cut with the Christian guide, and so overshot our halt; but, as the country was no longer dangerous, we felt no uneasiness on his behalf. As I smoked my pipe in the moonlight, I realised what a tie is formed by living the same life and enduring the same hardships: I had grown quite fond of Joseph and Sao, separated though we were by a world of ideas; and even with the other men who had covered so many miles with us travel supplied a bond which racial contrasts...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155072203
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 108
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1155072200
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 209 gr


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