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to be patient. When we pitched camp at the end
of a day's tortuous march Caliban was more cheer-
ful than usual, chatting with our men in human
fashion. The next morning Mir Mullah awoke with
a free leg — Caliban had vanished. With only a
crust of bread he started alone and on foot across
the trackless and bitter cold desert. His good
humour had probably resulted in a loosening of the
bonds that held him to Mir Mullah, who now could
only sheepishly report that he had slept heavily and
knew nothing of the escape. The man safely re-
gained Polu, as we learned months later when in-
quiry was made through Mr. MacCartney, now
representing Great Britain at Kashgar. And our
complaint of desertion is answered by Caliban's
statement that we were forcing him to follow a bad
road! Poor lamb! Now, indeed, was the summer
of our content made dismal winter by this inglorious
son of Belial. He had bestowed us at the end of a
valley, whose blackened volcanic sides gave it a
more than usually sinister visage. But no question
of appearance would have weighed against it if we
had only known where it was—I mean if we had
known with that satisfying intimacy which latitude
and longitude alone can supply.
I had left behind me all hope of recovering my
chronometer, lost by reason of the mulish delay
of the Osh postmaster. That meant no longitude.
But latitude by meridian passages is determinable
without a chronometer, provided you know the de-
clinations of the bodies observed. These, with all
other required astronomical data, are given in
nautical almanacs, and nautical almanacs should not
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