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0156 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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thousand feet, then down again to sixteen thousand
five hundred, in a rather narrow valley. Lassoo now
began to revive memories of his march with Captain
Welby. His little yellow face was turned know-
ingly from side to side, and he soon delighted us by
declaring to Achbar that we were going in the wrong
direction. Think of it, somebody who knew what
was the wrong direction! The next morning we
gave Lassoo his head, and were soon scaling another
eighteen-thousand-foot ridge, down into another
valley at about sixteen thousand five hundred feet
elevation. Mohammed Joo, ever an optimist, said
that was Lanak Pass. Lassoo said it was not, but
he could take us to Lanak and probably find shep-
herds there. Our hearts swelled with satisfaction.
A shepherd meant a trail; a trail meant a way back
to the world where people lived, where the map
should no longer be blank and where the ear
should no longer be hurt by the refrain "Adam
Yok!"
Another day we followed Lassoo, who held down
the valley wherein a friendly stream accompanied us
for a while. But now the little compass read N.
W., and all day long N. W., and there were no
shepherds. But men had been in this valley. Lassoo
triumphantly chuckled over a piece of pottery found
near to three blackened stones, dear to the eyes of
the trail-seeker. Then we passed a curious line of
little stone-piles about a foot high, two feet apart,
and stretching a clean mile across the valley, with a
six-foot opening about the middle. I think it
served to cull the foolish flocks that may have
grazed last year, or a hundred years ago, or a thou-