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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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should go; but to go a journey anywhere was enough for
me, and of course I said "Yes." I remember sitting that after-
noon in church at Simla and looking up the rows of people,
thinking how every man amongst them would wish to be in
my place, if he only knew what I was going to do; for at
that time I thought that everybody must necessarily want to
make a journey if he could only get the chance, and that
to do so must be the very highest ambition of a man.
Mr. James, it appeared, had originally intended to travel
with Mr. Carey, the well-known explorer of Tibet, who was just
then starting on his travels. But there had been difficulty about
Mr. James's leave, and so he had had to postpone his journey
till the following spring, and, being without a companion, had
asked me to join him wherever he might go. This act of
kindness is one for which I shall ever be grateful, and I shall
always feel that it was to Mr. James that I owe the first
start on my career of travel.
Both of us had an inclination towards China, and we at
once decided in a general way that to China we should go.
It so happened that in my leisure hours I had read up a
number of books about Manchuria, Mongolia, and North China,
and compiled itineraries from them. I was therefore able
to give my chief, Sir Charles Macgregor, then Quarter-Master-
General in India, some little proof that I was serious in the
matter, and he promised to help me and do what he could
to smooth over difficulties about my leave. Then followed
a month or two with my regiment, during which we marched
some three hundred miles to a camp of exercise, and took
part in manœuvres such as we have in India only, and in
which two armies of twenty thousand men each were started
off from bases over one hundred miles apart, and told to find
and fight each other how and when and where they could;
and at the close of these manœuvres in the spring of 1886 I
obtained my leave, and was able to join Mr. James at Calcutta.
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