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0145 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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cipline? That is the theological term under which
many of *our ills* are covered. What is it for the
poor beast? What is the object of his discipline?
Briefly, we do not know—neither as to horse nor as
to man. Suffering is a part of the universe, in-
herent as is joy. While watching them, one after the
other, stagger to their death I could see only this:
a mass of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen,
which, for reasons unknown to me, or to you, had
for a time been endowed with the fatal gift of con-
sciousness. And a man-corpse suggests nothing
different, save a less weight of carbon, oxygen, hy-
drogen, and nitrogen, with a greater weight of con-
sciousness. That is all we may *know*; but there are
infinities for which we may hope.

In getting out of Caliban's valley we were led up
over a ridge 18,300 feet above the sea, and then, at
the end of two days' march, we were down again to
about 16,500. As to direction, we yielded to the
welcome constraint of mountain and valley, glad to
note that our general trend was south-westward.
So powerful is the reasoning of desire, we had con-
vinced ourselves that we could identify certain
ranges as shown on the meagre maps, and for a few
days we actually saw, at about five-mile intervals,
artificial heaps of stone, probably marking some
native trail of rarest use, from Polu to the salt lakes
or to Rudok. But we now know that we depended
too much on maps that were necessarily sketches
only.

We turned away westward from the best course
to Rudok, earlier by a good two days' march than
should have been done, and were thus thrown in
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