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0178 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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one of the principal rivers that digs a torrential
course down the Kuen Lun Mountains, to fret its
way through the slow sands of the Taklamakan,
and to die of inanition as part of the great Tarim
stream. The waters which appeared between Camp
Abandon and Camp Purgatory were evidently its
permanent sources, instead of the much more dis-
tant points which the maps had heretofore assigned
to that character. Thus our stumbling among the
mountains turned to some good account in the
laborious effort which man has made to know
the globe he inhabits.
Then came the blow to my hopes. The Kirghiz
would not go farther from their tents; they could
not help me to get back to Rudok. We must go
out, if we wanted to be saved, by going northward,
back to their grazing ground, thence westward until
we should reach the Karakoram caravan route be-
tween Yarkand and Ladak Leh. They had not grain
enough to furnish me forth for another journey,
even if I had the horses, and they could not afford
to part with such animals as I should need for such
an attempt. Man is an essentially Unsatisfied De-
sire and an Irritated Sensibility. These people had
come in the nick of time to save my life; their
refusal to help me Rudokward was in every way
reasonable, yet there was a moment of rebellious in-
dignation. Soon, however, It-might-have-been was
buried deep in It-is, and we turned towards thoughts
of departure. Something like thirty days must pass
ere we could reach the railway on the far north of
India, but the route was known to our Kirghiz as
far as the link that should bind Camp Purgatory to