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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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Kashgari is not adventurous. Our three recruits
for permanent service were: one an Afghan, Mir
Mullah; one a Ladaki, Lassoo; and one a half-breed
boy, a Yarkand-Kashmir cross, Achbar by name;
he came at the eleventh hour, was joyously wel-
comed, and as an interpreter for many days strenu-
ously tried us. His vocabulary was painfully
extended from twenty-five up to fifty words, and
one blank stare. Achbar was the only human being
available as interpreter in all the province about us.
Joseph was exhausted; he must return to the soft
care of civilisation in Tiflis. The persons speaking
European languages in Kashgar were the members
of the Russian colony: Colonel Miles and his moon-
shee (clerk), from India; Father Hendricks, Catho-
lic missionary; a Swedish missionary family of
Lutheran persuasion; and Achbar, whose English
had come from another Swedish missionary, now
dead. He had taught the boy to call the Bible
"Angel Book," and enough of Christian doctrine to
make of him an indifferent polytheist, ready to give
youthful credence to any set of supernaturals pre-
sented by any respectable authority.
With all reverence for our Occidental faith, it may
fairly be wished and believed that Achbar should
soon be firmly re-established in the faith of his
fathers, since, in the nature of the case, he could
never be other than a hazy, slipshod Christian.
His theology clearly resembled his English. After
two days' labour to teach him the word "now" he
startled me by stolidly saying: "You mean 'at
present.' " And when despair had come to close
further exertion on the word "perhaps," there came
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