IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
| 天の間で : vol.1 |
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引用情報
CHAP. v.] WAITING IN PEKING. 97
from the general style of his movements, they
thought it extremely improbable that he would
wait for me there more than three-quarters of
an hour. As it turned out, we never met
again till we arrived in India, and then Colonel
Bell told me that he really had waited for me
a whole day in H ami this place in the middle
of Central Asia, nearly two thousand miles
from our starting-point—and, astonished at
finding I had not arrived punctual to time, had
proceeded on his way to India !
Meanwhile I had to remain in Peking to
await the reply of the telegram to the Viceroy,
and occupy myself in sundry preparations, and
in the search for an interpreter. A favourable
reply arrived, and then Sir John Walsham,
with his usual kindness, interested himself in
procuring for me the best passport it was pos-
sible to obtain from the Chinese, and, having
been successful, April 4, 1887, was fixed as the
date of my departure from Peking.
The evening preceding was one which it
will be hard indeed to forget, and I think I
then for the first time clearly realised what I
was undertaking. Lady Walsham asked me
after dinner to mark for her on a map the
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