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0200 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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TREES, TIBETANS, AND THE TELEGRAPH—PANAMIK
AND LADAK LEH

SPLENDID visions of mountain majesty, wrapped
in cloudy glory, ten thousand feet above Sasar's
crest; gorges riven as though by a giant's thrust at
the heart of mighty hills; quick avalanches crashing
down the startled slopes; torrents of boulders, wait-
ing to be unleashed by some puny force, that they
may rush to fill a valley or destroy a fated caravan;
such are the memories that come and go as now, in
slippered ease, I nimbly fly where once I crawled.
They are memories that will not tether to the pen.
But there comes another image more tractable. At
the turn of the dizzy trail, we look across the chasm
whose sides we scale, and lo! a tree, the first to wave
familiar salute since fifty days or more. Then the
naked mountains, as if resenting the too intimate
prying of man, now soon to be seen in his dwellings,
began to clothe all their secret places with leafy
growth.
The eglantine overhung our crag-encircling path,
and its perfume subtly evoked memories of the wild
approaches to Harar in distant Abyssinia, of plan-
tation lanes in sunny Louisiana, of youth and man-
hood garlanded, perfumed by this sweet, bold,
flower. While our delighted eyes are not yet wonted
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