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0134 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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to push on; we might reach Rudok or meet nomadic
Kirghiz. So off we started.
Our guide, Caliban's double, had been ugly from
the moment we crossed the pass, and Mohammed
Joo had thumped him a little to keep him from
balking. He was, or pretended to be, ill; remem-
bering that the mountaineers are occasionally sub-
ject to nausea when taken to unusual elevations, we
put Caliban on a pony, though none of our own
men complained of anything more serious than
shortening of the breath. We were then at an
elevation of about sixteen thousand feet. It seemed
wise to tie our Mercury to a less volatile element,
and Mir Mullah was chosen for the rôle of anchor
by night and shadow by day. Except for the cords
that bound his legs to Mir Mullah's the fellow was
well treated, and was promised backsheesh, besides
the unpaid half of his hire, if he duly led us past
Baba Hatun, an ancient, deserted Tibetan fort, to a
point which had been agreed upon by Mohammed
Joo and the Beg, and which we hoped to identify
on the map. We were therefore disgusted and
troubled when at the end of two long marches from
the lake the guide was understood to say that we
had already left Baba Hatun to the rear. Remon-
strance was useless. We were told that the Beg
had ordered us to be taken by another road, but
that we should reach the other agreed point in two
days. I remembered similar trouble in Africa. Not
infrequently and not unwisely the simple native re-
fuses to take explorers into his country if it has
heretofore been free from the curiosity that finally
upsets him. We wanted to be fair, and were forced