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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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Kanjuti Raja information to enable him to carry out his raids
successfully ; but he was friendly enough to me, and gave me
all the assistance which I required. And this was a satisfactory
thing, for he was really under the Chinese, and might have
made difficulties here, as I had with me no Chinese passport,
and had to trust to establishing friendly relations with the
inhabitants to enable me to get through the country without
hindrance.
The next day I left my escort, and set out to meet Major
Cumberland and Lieutenant Bower at Tashkurgan, some
seventy miles distant. This place I reached on the following
day, and found them encamped a few miles lower down. The
pleasure of meeting Englishmen again, and being able to talk
in my own language, may well be imagined.
They had set out from Leh about two weeks before
me, and, accompanied by M. Dauvergne, had travelled by
Shahidula to the Kilian Pass, and from there had struck west-
ward to Kugiar, near which place they had met with Colonel
Pieotsof, the Russian traveller, who had succeeded the late
General Prjevalsky in command of the expedition to Tibet.
They say that this party had from eighty to one hundred
camels, besides about twenty ponies. The guard consisted of
twenty-five Cossacks, and they had no native servants whatever,
the Cossacks doing the whole of the work. They lived in
felt tents, and were apparently travelling very leisurely and
comfortably. From Kugiar, Major Cumberland had made his
way across the Tisnaf valley, which he describes as being very
beautiful and abounding in fruit, to the Yarkand River, and
from there up the valley of the Tung River, also a very fruitful
one, to Tashkurgan. This road has never been traversed by
Europeans, and, from Major Cumberland's account, it would
appear to be not an easy one, by reason of the succession of
passes over the spurs running down from the big ranges which
had to be crossed.
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