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Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
天の間で : vol.1 |
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CHAPTER VII.
THROUGH TURKESTAN TO YARKAND.
MY first inquiries on arrival were as to whether
Colonel Bell had arrived. I had reached Hami
some weeks later than the date on which, in
the Legation at Peking, we had fixed to meet
here, but still he had had a long round to travel,
and might have been late too. I was disap-
pointed to find that he had passed through
about three weeks before, and must now be
well on his way to India.
My next inquiries were as to the means of
reaching Kashgar, the principal town at the
western extremity of Turkestan, and the time
it would take to reach there. The result of
the inquiries was unsatisfactory. Difficulties,
of course, arose. It was the hot season, and
carters would not hire out their carts. In any
case it would take seventy days to reach there,
and this would bring us to the end of Sep-
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