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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.] A NEW JOURNEY. 95
across Central Africa and back again, and, to
me at least, far more interesting than any
African travel—a journey through countries
varying from the level wastes of the Gobi
Desert to the snow-clad masses of the Hima-
layas ; passing, moreover, through the entire
length of an empire with a history of three
thousand years behind it, and still fresh in
interest to the present day. And with the
chance of making such a journey who could
help feeling all the ardent excitement of travel
rising in him, and long to be started on it ?
Colonel Bell arrived in Peking towards the
end of March, and to my delight said he would
be only too glad to allow me to accompany
him ; but he thought that it would be a waste
of energy for two officers to travel together
along the same road, so we arranged to follow
different routes.
There were, of course, initial difficulties to
be overcome the chief one being the obtaining
leave of absence from my regiment. But Sir
John Walsham, for whose kindness on this
occasion I could never feel too grateful, over-
came this by telegraphing direct to Lord
Dufferin, then Viceroy of India, and that diffi-
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