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0024 Among the Celestials : vol.1
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4   AMONG THE CELESTIALS.

[CHAP. I.

I should be able to do, with just about enough

food for the whole day as would form a decent

breakfast for a man in hard work. And yet

there was a delicious sense of satisfaction as

each long day's march was over, as each snowy

pass was crossed, each new valley entered, and

the magnificent health and strength which carne

therewith inspired me with the feeling of being

able to go anywhere and do anything that it

was within the powers of man to do.

From this first tour through the Himalayas I

came back with the exploring fever thoroughly

on me, and I plunged incessantly into books of

travel. But the immediate cause of my first

big journey was Mr. James.* It was by the

greatest piece of good fortune that we came

together. We met first at a dinner-party at

Simla, and the conversation between us turned

on Yarkand and Kashgar. (1 would beg my

readers thoroughly to impress upon their minds

the position of these places, for their names

will frequently be mentioned throughout this

book.) I naturally waxed eloquent on the

* Mr. H. E. M. James, C.S.I., of the Indian Civil Service, then Director-General of the Post-Office in India, now Commissioner in Sind.

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