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In Tibet and Chinese Turkestan : vol.1 | |
チベットと中国領トルキスタン : vol.1 |
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I wished to retain the services of the two new men; and' although, through Mohammed Joo, I offered them w-4,ges many times greater than they could possibly get oilier- 7. wise, they declined all overtures, and returned to their
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own land.
Being doubtful whether water could be obtained close to the north side of the At To Pass, I set out early-in thé ." morning to make a search. On my. way I saw One very obvious *effect of the rain and sleet : .the stones, lOoSened - by, the s.uperabundant nadisture, rolled and bounded -dow-n-
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the mountain-sides in sho-vvers, from which it was ..at tinds
necessary to take shelter under the cliffs. • On overtaking - the two men who had been sent forward With the- trans- ' port sheep, I sent back Stanzin, who had been. accus- tomed to -caravan work, and I endeavoured to- take. his.: . place. The work .of driving sheep wds new to me, and-„ simple though it may appear, I found it verydifficult,-
, The 'animals, hungry and scared by the falling - stones, could not be- made to go forward, but remained huddled together in the bottom of the narrow valley, in_spite of all - my shouting and pushing and stone-throwing. Recogni-. ing that sheep-driving was not my proper vocation, I left them to Nurbu and went •to look for water. My search
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was fruitless, so that we had to halt in the valley at the furthest place where water could be found. By the time T had helped Nurbu to unload the sheep I felt we-ary,.- feverish, and too weak to return to the caravan. For .several hours I spent the time in alternately looking for the caravan and seeking shelter in a dry_ but shallow water-course from the blinding snowstorm, while the tired sheep wandered about, bleating pitifully, searching for grass where no grass was to be found: Then Niaz. Akun came up and reported that one of my ponies had fallen over the precipice and been killed. The pony, he said, was one'Which h,ad-carried money, and its load had
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