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Citation Information
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96 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. V.
culty—generally the greatest which military
explorers have to encounter was at once re-
moved.
Colonel Bell and I meanwhile spread out
our maps and discussed operations. He was
anxious to see the more populated parts of
China in order to be the better able to judge
of its condition and resources, and so decided
upon going through the provinces inside of
the Great Wall to Kansu, and then striking
across the Gobi Desert to Hami, following
throughout the main route between Peking
and Chinese Turkestan. To my lot fell the
newer and more purely exploring work, and
it was determined that I should follow the
direct road across the Gobi Desert, and, if
possible, meet Colonel Bell at Hami on the
opposite end.* He then left Peking, after
fixing a date for our meeting at Hami. My
friends in the Legation said that, judging
* This route had never previously, nor, as far as I am aware, has it since been, traversed by a European. It lies midway between the high road to Chinese Turkestan and the route which the late Mr. Ney Elias followed in 1872 on his way from Peking to Siberia, and for the exploration of which he obtained the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society.
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