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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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Opportunity breeds the act, and here the Euro-
pean would look for theft and deem it a wrong
almost condoned, provoked by negligence. But
this upheaved world is only seeming wide. The
perilous track which we have followed is its whole
width, for man; and some hundreds of Ladakis and
Yarkandis, bound in a sort of acquaintance-guild,
are its population. Familiar to each other are they,
nor less familiar their yaks, camels, and ponies.
These honest brutes, in conspiracy with the very
snows and sands, spread over this too-narrow world
their tell-tale tracks, the entangling meshes of a
Bertillon system; and the keen Hindoo merchants,
squatting at Srinagar, Leh, Kashgar, and Yarkand,
those master minds which defy nature for traffic's
sake, would not easily let go the unseen threads
which bind the caravan-man; they are harmless
guiding threads if the opium and the silk find their
true way over the passes to the destined recess of
the noisy bazaar, but sure strangling ropes if aught
should go awry. So honesty salutes necessity as her
mother, and the riches of the Hindoo may be left for
days visited only by that blustering roundsman, the
night wind.
We were three caravans camped cheek by jowl
among Sasar's rocks, all content with much hot tea,
wherein was brewed also a certain sense of brotherly
love, of sympathy with each other, compacted to-
gether in struggle against the night, the mountains,
and the bitter cold. Even the luxury of giving to
the poor was not denied us, shaggy-haired, dark-
faced men from the Balti country coming to the
camp-fire, asking bread and warmth that they might
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