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0120 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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A CHEERFUL, probably a sincere individual
we found the Chinese Amban of Khotan.
He urged us not to go to Polu, the village which
should mark the beginning of our ascent to the
great plateau. He thought it foolish to try un-
known dangers, when Ladak, our nominal objective,
could be reached by the arduous but familiar route
via Yarkand. Whether or not we should have
frankly told him that we wanted to make a try to-
ward Lhasa, I do not know. Father Hendricks
thought not. He believed we would not be per-
mitted to even start for Central Tibet as our avowed
objective, nor, thought he, could we try to provision
for so long a journey without arousing suspicion.
So we talked Ladak—a province once belonging to
Tibet, now lately stolen away by the Maharajah of
Kashmir—and thought Rudok, a village in terri-
tory that is still Tibetan, and where we hoped to
reprovision; and where, if pressure of time required
it, Anginieur, whose year's leave approached its end,
could start for Ladak, and I might try again for the
East, eventually returning to Ladak.
The Amban advised, but did not command; and
after a four-days' stop in Khotan, we were off one
fine day with Father Hendricks, the Hindoo Aksa-
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