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0175 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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out meat, for our *pièce de resistance*. Then we
gripped our belts and had doubts as to Russian
civilisation. The men were stolid and uncomplain-
ing, though Mir Mullah's resigned assertion that
Allah had surely chosen this spot, as his burial-
ground did not tend to make the two younger ones
light-hearted. And the old man's voice was dis-
tressingly broken and womanish when lifted up in
long prayers which every day became more plaintive.
There was a note of dissolution in it, of incorporeal-
ity, which shivered one's nerves. Was it ugly of
me to have Achbar tell him to pray like a man, not
like a weeping child?

When we had been in Camp Purgatory a week
three crows began to visit us, our only friends.
Achbar said these birds would eat nothing but men
and horses, and that they knew three days in ad-
vance when God meant to give them a feast. We
laughed at him and flung stones at the crows.
Then we discovered some fish insultingly curling
under the ice of a near-by pond. Here was occu-
pation and food, if we were successful. Fish-hooks
were found and let down through ice-holes. The
cunning beasts viewed our stratagem and sailed
away. Several hours of several days were patiently
dedicated to such wiles, but each night closed up
our silly breaches in their walls, glazing over an
undiminished number of these water foxes.

The tenth night was a blue one, for we had laid
great stress, when instructing our messengers, upon
the importance of sending some word on that day,
in case help had been found, even if our men could
not themselves return. However, nothing remained