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0167 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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CHAPTER VII

CAMP PURGATORY—PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
VS. PROBABLE DEATH—KIRGHIZ SAMARITANS

THE tardy sun reached the black mountain-tops
and slanted his arrows upon our tent some-
what after eight in the morning. When thus we
were invited forth from our covers on the first day
of our sojourn in Camp Purgatory (for so we called
it), it came to pass that another blow from Fortune's
hammer fell upon us. Now it struck Anginieur's
leg, and the effect thereof is called phlebitis, and
the effect of phlebitis is acute pain, a sort of paraly-
sis. A short cable's length of assisted promenade,
that was a day's work for a so stricken leg. For
the upkeeping of our courage we had talked much
and fallaciously about walking toward safety, when
the ponies should all have died; scheming to use
them inside of us when they could no longer bear
us as burdens on their backs. But if no help came
from down stream, whither our messengers had
gone, we should be forced back into the maze of
fatal mountains which had encircled us since we left
the Aksai Chin valley. Even the natives felt the
hopelessness of such an effort for themselves.
The attempts that I had made to give relief to
my pitiful mount whenever the uphill work halted
him had made it clear to me that even a well man,
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