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AMONG THE CELESTIALS.
CHAPTER I.
THE EVER-WHITE MOUNTAIN.
WHAT it was that first started me off on
wanderings, which for ten years led me over
so large a portion of Asia, it is difficult to say
exactly. But I think the first seeds of divine
discontent at staying still were sown in the
summer of 1884, when I had obtained a few
months' leave from my regiment,. the King's
Dragoon Guards, then stationed at Rawal
Pindi, in the Punjab, and made use of it to
tour through some of the lower ranges of the
Himalayas.
My instinct first led me to Dharmsala, for
many years the home of my uncle, Robert
Shaw, who, with Hayward, was the first
Englishman to push his way through the
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