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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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long travel, radiant with success, happy because
they had saved their friends.
Achbar's halting words were spurred to tell the
story. Four and a half days down the valley, their
ponies pushed to the limit of endurance, they had
at last found *man*. The thirty-day refrain of "Adam
Yok'' was ended. Three Kirghiz tents, set where
the valley widened and bore abundant grass, shel-
tered a kindly people. The exhausted ponies, the
way-worn men, were fed. But the paterfamilias
being absent, nothing there could be done for our
relief. Nearly two days' away were two other
tents. There the elders had gone, there our mes-
sengers must hasten, on fresh ponies now. The
good Kirghiz were quick to act. Three men, four
camels, and two extra ponies were at once set in
motion. Grain for the going and for the return,
and food for all, were promptly gathered. The
Kirghiz knew the valley well, though none had gone
as far up as was our camp. Travelling fast, under
the friendly constraint of our servants, they covered
in four days what we afterwards covered, with fair
marches, in seven. They were now only an hour
behind our Achilles and Ulysses. Soon we saw the
familiar swing of the camels rounding the black
rocks, and ere the sun set, we were a happy camp
of friends. So material a thing is life that we must
mark the reassurance of it by eating away all hunger
and all appetite; the fresh mutton was good, the
yak's butter was good, and the yak's clotted cream
was good.
Good and surprising it was also to learn where we
were. The great valley was that of the Karakash,
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