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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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Turkestan. To my lot fell the newer and more purely
exploring work, and it was determined that I should follow
the direct road across the Gobi desert, and, if possible, meet
Colonel Bell at Hami.* Colonel Bell then left Peking, after
fixing a date on which we should meet at Hami, and my friends
in the Legation said that, judging from the general style of
his movements, they thought it extremely improbable that
he would wait for me there more than three-quarters of an
hour. As it turned out, we never met again till we arrived
in India, and then Colonel Bell told me that he really had
waited for me a whole day in Hami—this place in the middle
of Central Asia, nearly two thousand miles from our starting-
point—and, astonished at finding I had not turned up to date,
had proceeded on his way to India.
Meanwhile, I had to remain in Peking to await the reply
of the telegram to the Viceroy, and occupy myself in sundry
preparations and in the search for an interpreter. A favourable
reply arrived, and then Sir John Walsham, with his usual
kindness, interested himself in procuring for me the best pass-
port it was possible to obtain from the Chinese, and that having
been obtained, April 4, 1887, was fixed as the date of my
departure from Peking.
The evening preceding my departure was one which it
will be hard indeed to forget, and I think I realized then for
the first time clearly what I was undertaking. Lady Walsham
asked me after dinner to mark on a map for her the route
I proposed to follow, and to tell her exactly what I hoped to
do. Then, as I traced out a pencil line along the map of
Asia, I first seemed to appreciate the task I had before me.
Everything was so vague. Nowhere in Peking had we been
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