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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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We put our camp folding-table in commission again,
stretched our legs, all four of them, in defiance of
phlebitis, and voted the world a merry one. Then
we were off, following the stately camels, not to be
warm again for a week or more; but there was food
a-plenty and action a-plenty. We were bound for
Sasar, several days' march beyond the junction with
the Yarkand–Leh caravan route. There we must
change camels for yaks, thus to get over the great
glacier on which pad-feet would slip and ingloriously
sprawl the humped majesty of Asia.
In the week's hard march we passed one habita-
tion, a single Kirghiz tent, whose owner's cattle
struggled for existence in as dismal a loneliness as
hermit could desire. We stopped there while our
attendants gathered a few small sticks from the
furze-growth. The men of the family were absent,
but we were permitted to sit by the scant fire and
watch the household life of the women. One of
the daughters wore the matron's turban; her sisters,
comely girls, were not yet mated. One of them,
however, was the fiancée of a young man in our
caravan. It was a pretty play of hide-and-seek we
witnessed. When his voice was heard approaching
the tent, she bustled quickly behind a screen, where
she must remain while he warmed his fingers. Sur-
rounding nature's severity is thus reflected in their
customs. He must not see her during the year of
their engagement, then, with guise of swift violence,
he will seize her away to some lonely neighbouring
tent, distant fifty miles or more. Does the picture
please you, O Araminta? No matter: there are
deep reasons for it, which I could better explain to
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