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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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ten or twelve years he had been settled in Yarkand as a trader
—a true pioneer of commerce—and for the last two he had
been the companion of Mr. Carey, of the India Civil Service,
in one of the most adventurous and daring journeys that
has ever been made in Central Asia—a journey right round
Chinese Turkestan and into the very heart of Tibet. He
was now in India, preparing to return to Yarkand, but he
was fated never to reach that place again. On his way there,
near the summit of the Karakoram Pass, he was treacherously
murdered by an Afghan, and so ended the career of one who
had done much for our good name in this distant land.
Every one who mentioned his name spoke of him with
kindliness and respect. It was hard to drive a bargain with
him, the traders said, as it is with every other Scotchman,
but they appreciated this sign of business capacity, and they
liked his openness and fairness and truthfulness. Whenever
he could, he was ready to help them; he regularly threw in
his lot with them, and lived amongst them in every way as
one of themselves. In this manner he secured their affection
to an extraordinary degree—to such an extent, in fact, that the
Russian consul at Kashgar afterwards told me that when one
of his servants, after his murder, came to him, the man could
not restrain himself from crying, evidently from unaffected
grief; and M. Petrovsky said he could never have believed
that an Asiatic could become so devoted to a European.
These are the men, quite unremarkable though they appear
when met with in ordinary life, who are the true missionaries
of all that is best in our civilization. Their real greatness is
only apparent when they are separated from us by the distance
of death—like a picture, coarse and rough when viewed too
closely, but instinct with depth of feeling when viewed from
a distance. It is they who, going ahead, pave the way for
others to follow; and every Englishman and every European
who visits Yarkand territory after Dalgleish, must owe a debt
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