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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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to Achbar, who composedly interpreted to us:
"Now the sahibs see that we must all die if we
go on; and shall we go there, or there, or there?
It is all the same. Last night the ponies were
nearly all dead in the snow. All of us were very
cold. You see it is worse around us. But it is not
too late, I think, if we go back!"
Just then, at the psychological moment, the snow
began falling around us, and even Anginieur, who
sympathised less with Lassoo's views than I, felt
that our lives were now hung on a slender thread,
which pulled us backward. Lassoo was all wrong
about Lanak Pass, but he was all right in respect to
the wisdom of sticking closer than a brother to a
good descending stream. And now we could hold
out but a few days longer, for our grain supply was
just two bushels. We had been travelling for more
than twenty days without seeing a human being and
had no idea where to find them, and we were simply
lost. So down we went. There remained much to
suffer, but that decision saved us eventually. I re-
member just a little regret at leaving so splendid, so
savage a view. And, as we knew later, the spot was
geographically of unique interest. The ridge which
stretched its forlorn length to right and left of us
separates the Hindustan plains from the central
desert. It is the true ridge-pole of the Asiatic con-
tinental mass. The snowflakes that fell around us
might be divided even as they melted, part going to
the hungry sands of the cold northern wastes, part
to be warmed in the glistening bosom of the Indian
Ocean. Here is such a frontier as Titans would de-
clare for fending wide apart their jealous empires.
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