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0119 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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CHAPTER V.

PEKING TO THE GOBI DESERT.

" And o'er him many changing scenes must roll, Ere toil his thirst for travel can assuage."

Byron.

To return to the narrative of my travels,

while I was waiting in Peking news arrived

that Colonel M. S. Bell, V.C., of the Royal

Engineers, was to come there and travel thence

straight through overland to India. I knew

Colonel Bell, having served under him in the

Intelligence Department in India, so I im-

mediately decided upon asking him to allow

me to accompany him. Here was the oppor-

tunity for which I had longed. Here was a

chance of visiting that hazy mysterious land

beyond the Himalayas, and actually seeing

Kashgar and Yarkand, with whose names I had been acquainted from my ,boyhood through

the letters of my uncle, Robert Shaw. A