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Landor (1893), pp.143,144
Shari Mombets is a miserable place.
In the house where I put up I was received by a young man, but the owner of the house did not show himself.
The next morning, however, as I gave much more money than they expected, the landlord was brought to my room to thank me.
The poor man suffered from elephantiasis─the wretched disease by which the head and all the limbs of the body assume gigantic proportions.
His head was swollen to more than twice its normal size, and had lost its shape; his body was piteously deformed and inflated, his eyes nearly buried in flesh.
The weight of his head was such that the cervical vertebrae were scarcely strong enough to support it erect; and when he bowed down in Japanese fashion to thank me and bid me good-bye, I had to run to his help, for he could not get up again.
Poor man!
And when we reflect that in more civilised countries many people think themselves very ill and suffering when they have a pimple on their nose, or a cold in their head!
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引用文献
- Landor, A. H. Savage, (1893) : Alone with the hairy Ainu : or, 3800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile islands. London : John Murray. 1893.
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