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Citation Information
252 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. IX.
commander-in-chief, upon my having success-
fully accomplished the journey, and a very kind
letter from General Chapman, then Quarter-
master-General in India, who had himself been
to Yarkand and Kashgar, and, knowing how
welcome they are to travellers, had thoughtfully
sent a box of cigars to await my arrival.
Only one day was given up for rest in
Srinagar, and then I started on the last stage
of my journey, that to Rawal Pindi ; for I was
anxious to accomplish my task in precisely the
seven months which I had said at Peking
would be the time necessary for it, and which
would expire on November the 4th. So I
hurried on, and now at the end of a long
journey felt " fitter " than when I started, and.
able to cover the distance rapidly. After
arriving at a staging bungalow at seven o'clock.
on the evening of November 2, I had my
dinner, lay down for an hour or two, and then
at twelve o'clock at night started again walking
the first march of twelve miles, and afterwards
riding in a native cart, which conveyed me
during the day for three marches down the
newly constructed cart-road. At the end of
these three marches I rode another ten miles
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