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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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silence and the darkness were as waters to quench
the thirst for identity, for separateness.
Although it was clear that Lassoo's six-day limit
was purely fanciful, we could not but feel a bit more
lost when the seventh day's sun rose on our un-
broken solitude. Our men would undoubtedly have
made great effort to return on the appointed day.
Moreover, their horses must now be dead unless
they had found help. The grain, less than a bushel,
could not keep them going more than six days of
hard work. We counted our paltry store of tins
and hefted our bag of rice. This had now to be
divided among our three servants whose bread stock
was very low, Mohammed Joo and Lassoo having
been supplied generously for ten days' constant
riding or walking. Allowing Anginieur and myself
together one box of sardines, a one-pint tin of pork
swimming in water, a cup of rice, and four ounces
of bread, and to the men a cup of rice and eight
ounces of bread (for the three), we were still good
for eight days. Happily the tea supply would go
even a little longer. Oh, blessed beverage! As we
were quite inactive, the rations would have been
satisfactory but for the extreme cold, which de-
manded the production of a lot of heat units. We
usually spent fifteen hours in bed, covered in due
form with all our trappings, thus minimising the
heat losses.
It was, perhaps, an hygienic régime; we could
not eat enough to satisfy appetite, but we had
enough to tame hunger. The only severe trials
proceeding from our larder came when some un-
readable label gave us a mere mess of cabbage, with-
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