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0182 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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CHAPTER VIII

GLACIERS, YAKS, SKELETONS, A LOVE AFFAIR, AND
A HIGH SONG ON THE KARAKORAM ROUTE

ARETRIEVE of the luggage at Camp Abandon,
a day of rest for the weary ones, plenty of
grain in the bellies of the surviving ponies, and we
were off again down the dismal valley whence had
come our salvation. We were delighted to find that
Anginieur, once trussed up on his mount, could
"stay put" without much suffering. Then, the
third day out, came a sensation, and for the game
leg the beginning of its cure. We had a roaring fire
made of shrubs that grew at least three feet high,
the most gigantic vegetable we had seen since leav-
ing Polu. The leg was fairly roasted by the leaping
flames, and a luxurious *bien être* took hold of Angi-
nieur's soul.

Then two days later came the triumphal entry
into the Kirghiz camp. What a simple, hearty
welcome from these good people! Their little
population normally filled the three lodges—those
felt-warmed, lattice-framed tents which sparsely dot
all the wilds of Central Asia. One was given to the
sahibs; one received all the men, a dozen of them;
while women and children swarmed in the third. It
would be pleasant to believe that one-fourth of all
the Christians whom one must meet in an ordinary

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