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0199 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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the railway, then pell-mell in the crowded carriages
of slow trains, to Bombay or to Karachi. Thence, as
steerage passengers, a weary, suffocating voyage to
Jeddah; then the short, dusty, teeming, glorious
march to Mecca, the body begrimed and worn, the
soul enraptured. And if disease and death be met
on the way, they are seen to have angelic smiling
faces—they are the welcome guides to Paradise. Of
*true* truth in all this, nothing I suppose; but of
dream truth, of life-supporting, joy-making, faith-
begotten, heart-believed truth, a great deal. The
Mohammedan Hadji *really believes* in immortality
and makes light of things mundane, as you and I
would do if the creed of after-life were fixed in our
minds as is the creed of next winter's cold weather.