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0015 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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THE reader need not fear that he is here invited
to traverse the weary marches of a traveller's
diary. In the following pages, incidents have been
subordinated to the things suggested by them.
The journey herein recounted was made in the lat-
ter half of the year 1903. As I have many other duties
in life than those of travel and writing, the prepara-
tion of this book has been of fitful and slow process.
Although originally undertaking the expedition
alone, it was by happy chance that I met in Tiflis
Captain Fernand Anginieur of the French Army,
who became a companion for the journey and a
friend for life. He shared with me the responsibili-
ties of every kind that were to be met after a tele-
graphed authorisation from his War Minister per-
mitted him definitely to cast his lot with mine.
I wish more of my compatriots could meet and
know such Frenchmen as are typified in Anginieur.
"Brilliant but superficial and frivolous" is a hasty
judgment which one often hears from English-
speaking critics of the French. "Brilliant, loyal,
and earnest"—such is the type whom one finds in
making the acquaintance of my friend Anginieur.
As to the route followed by us: starting at the
Caspian Sea, we went by rail eastward through Rus-
sian Turkestan to Andijan; thence by caravan, over
the Trans-Alaï Mountains to Kashgar in Chinese
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