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0124 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 passes ere the winter set in. Our haste was also
in part due to the mere fascination one feels in
affronting the unknown—as such. Why, by the
way, may not this sentiment, of common occurrence
in respect to things mundane, offer an element of
character which, if carefully "bred to," should take
away all the terrors of journeying to the unexplored
land called Death?

The village was not entirely a stranger to Euro-
peans. Seven years ago it had sheltered Captain
Grombtchevsky of the Russian army while he sur-
veyed the tortured country around it, possibly
dreaming of Muscovite empire, to be won in peril
and suffering by a soldiery that thinks not, but
obeys. Przhevalsky also reached it from the north.
Both the Russian travellers considered the place as
an impossible starting-point for long journeying on
the plateau. Then the fated Frenchman, Dutreuil
du Rhins, with his brave companion, M. Grenard,
twice visited Polu during their unhappy but fruitful
travels. Captain Deasey, in 1901, again put Polu
on the map, and as far away as 1886 Carey had
descended from the plateau by way of the wretched
river-bed which we were to climb. It is this absurd,
but possible, trail between the plateau and the
lower desert, this slanting fissure in the northern
slope of the Kuen Lun range, which gives to Polu
its geographic prominence.

Even while we were still bearing the scrutiny of
many curious eyes, it was announced that another
white man was in Polu, and we wondered greatly
how this had come to pass in the very jumping-off
place of Turkestan, for we had heard no rumour of