usually in Asiatic posts the same man rides an enormous distance
Polo describes the couriers as changed at short intervals, but more
usually in Asiatic posts the same man rides an enormous distance. The
express courier in Tibet, as described by ‘the Pandit,’ rides from Gartokh
to Lhasa, a distance of 800 miles, travelling day and night. The courier”s
coat is _sealed_ upon him, so that he dares not take off his clothes till
the seal is officially broken on his arrival at the terminus. These
messengers had faces cracked, eyes bloodshot and sunken, and bodies raw
with vermin. (_J. R. G. S._ XXXVIII. p. 149.) The modern Turkish post from
Constantinople to Baghdad, a distance of 1100 miles, is done in twenty
days by four Tartars riding night and day. The changes are at Sivas,
Diarbekir, and Mosul. M. Tchihatcheff calculates that the night riding
accomplishes only one quarter of the whole. (_Asie Mineure_, 2″de Ptie.
632-635.)–See I. p. 352, _pa?tze_.
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