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Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
天の間で : vol.1 |
114 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. VI.
journey before us, and so I was left to get on
as best I could, in half-English, half-Chinese,
with the " boy," Liu-san. The guide was a
doubled-up little man, whose eyes were not
generally visible, though they sometimes
beamed out from behind his wrinkles and
pierced one like a gimlet. He possessed a
memory worthy of a student of Stokes, and the
way in which he remembered the position of
the wells at each march in the desert, was
simply marvellous. He would be fast asleep
on the back of a camel, leaning right over with
his head either resting on the camel's hump,
or dangling about beside it, when he would
suddenly wake up, look first at the stars, by
which he could tell the time to a quarter of an
hour, and then at as much of the country as he
could see in the dark. Having thus satisfied
himself as to our position, he would, after a
time, turn the camel a little off the track, dis-
mount, and there, sure enough, we would find
a well. The extraordinary manner in which
he kept the way surpasses anything .I know of.
As a rule no track at all could be seen, especi-
ally in the sandy districts ; but he used to lead
us somehow or other, generally by the tracks
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