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Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
天の間で : vol.1 |
136 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. VI.
strange lurid colouring as this. An hour and
a half later, when it was nearly dark, a very
light, phosphorescent-looking cloud hung over
the place where the sun had gone down.
So we plodded on night after night over the
desert, and halting for the day sometimes by
the side of a minute little streamlet, where we
would find a few Mongols encamped, more
often by a roughly-dug waterhole, in the midst
of a desert with not a sign of human habitation
in sight. At last, one evening, towards the
end of June, when, after two months of desert
travel my patience was well-nigh exhausted, a
ray of light appeared. I had climbed one of
the highest hills to have a look round. There
were plenty of white soft clouds about, but
suddenly my eye rested on what I felt sure
must be something more than a mere cloud
and must be a great snowy range. I had out
my telescope in a moment, and there, in truth,
far away in the distance, only just distinguish-
able from the clouds, were real snow mountains.
These could be none other than the Tian-
shan ; my delight was unbounded, and long
did I feast my eyes on those "Heavenly
Mountains," as the Chinese name them, for
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