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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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Just as we rode away I went to the postmaster,
making what I thought to be a very clear arrange-
ment as to the forwarding by next carrier of my
chronometer (of the montre-torpilleur type), which
had been notified to me as being at Andijan straight
from a Petersburg dealer. The unresponsive official
was asked to see the Colonel, if any sort of doubt
could arise as to the immediate forwarding; we had
already wasted some days, were anxious to go on,
and in a moment of weakness I left the matter in
that condition. Just why a man of some experience
in travel should commit such folly I know not. A
few months later there was full and fair punishment
for my error. Indeed, my whole experience in life
leaves me unconvinced concerning the necessity of
a purgatory—much less a hell—as a device for
"getting square" between justice and myself.
Even you, gentle reader, who may be a profligate
—a seven-ways sinner—could satisfy all of my
mind's requirements for justice merely by having
less of heaven, not more of hell than should fall to
your righteous pastor, or to myself.
The road was dusty, and it was hot, because Cen-
tral Asia in July is always hot. But our mounts
were fairly good; the country was green all about
us through the twenty-mile strip of irrigation; the
people were interested and interesting. Altogether
a fair start,—only the recollection of the Colonel's
compound of courtesy and of curtness to worry us.
The first night out we slept happily under the
spreading trees that sheltered an old Kirghiz, having
two wives. He was a rare bird, by the way—for the
Kirghiz is almost universally a monogamic nomad.
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