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Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
天の間で : vol.1 |
254 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. IX.
plains on the southern side. My whole long
journey from Peking was at an end. My
utmost hopes had been fulfilled, and in precisely
the time I had laid out for the enterprise I had
reached that destination which, as I rode forth
from the gates of Peking, had seemed so remote
and inaccessible. On April 4 I left Peking, and
on November 4 I drove up to the mess-house
of my regiment at Rawal Pindi, and received
the congratulations of Colonel Thompson and
my brother officers.
Poor Liu-san, the Chinese servant, arrived
six weeks later with the ponies, which we had
been obliged to send back from the Mustagh
Pass round by the Karakoram and Leh. He
was suffering badly from pleurisy, brought on
by exposure ; but when he was sufficiently
recovered he was sent back to China by sea,
and he afterwards accompanied the persevering
American traveller, Mr. Rockhill, to Tibet.
He was a Chinaman, and therefore not a.
perfect animal, but he understood his business
thoroughly, and he did it. So for a journey
across the entire breadth of the Chinese Em-
pire I could scarcely have found a better man.
As long as he felt that he was " running " me,.
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