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CHAPTER XIX
FROM KASHGAR TO THE ALICHUR PAMIR
host of other practical tasks. They were lightened by the 011
kind hospitality afforded to me at my old base by Colonel
(since Brigadier General) Sir Percy Sykes, who had tem- t!
porarily replaced Sir George Macartney as H.B.M.'s Con-
sul iao
General. Though a shooting trip to the Pamirs soon
deprived me of the congenial company of this distinguished
officer of the Indian Political Department and his sister, l~
Miss Ella Sykes, the gifted writer and traveller, I continued
to benefit greatly by all the comfort and aid which I ik1
derived from the arrangements kindly made for me at
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Chini-bagh.
But what helped most to keep my spirits buoyant was the prospect of realizing my long-cherished plan of a journey across the Russian Pamirs and the mountains north of the Oxus. Those great regions of the `Roof of the World' and of the adjoining extreme east of Iran had ever since my youth had a special fascination for me by reason of their
varied geographical interest and their ethnic and historical
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THE hot weeks of June 1915 which followed my arrival at
Kashgar saw me kept hard at work at the safe repacking
of my collection of antiques, filling 182 heavy cases, for its ~s
long journey across the Kara-koram to Kashmir, and at a tip
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