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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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Turkestan. Those Russians who speak a foreign language,
speak it very well indeed ; but, contrary to the general belief
in England, the majority of even Russian officers speak Russian
only.
Enlivened by these conversations with Central Asian
merchants and with the Russian consul and his staff, the
winter at Kashgar passed more quickly than it might be
expected to do in so remote a corner of the world. We were
fortunate, too, in having several visitors from Europe. The
first of these was M. E. Blanc, a French traveller, who, having
spent a few months in Turkestan, was perfectly willing to put
both the Russian consul and myself right upon any point
connected with Central Asia. The next visit was from the
young Swedish traveller, Doctor Sven Hedin, who impressed
me as being of the true stamp for exploration—physically
robust, genial, even-tempered, cool and persevering. He only
paid a hurried visit to Kashgar from Russian Turkestan, but
he had already made a remarkable journey in Persia, and has
since travelled much on the Pamirs, in Tibet, and Chinese
Turkestan. I envied him his linguistic abilities, his knowledge
of scientific subjects, obtained under the best instructors in
Europe, and his artistic accomplishments ; he seemed to
possess every qualification of a scientific traveller, added to the
quiet, self-reliant character of his Northern ancestors.
Later on, again, we had a visit from M. Dutreuil de Rhins
and his companion M. Grenard, who did me the honour of
staying with me during their fortnight's halt in Kashgar, pre-
paratory to their three years' wandering in Tibet, which ended
so disastrously in the murder of De Rhins by the Tibetans.
M. de Rhins was a man of about forty-five, who had served the
principal part of his life in the French navy and mercantile
marine. He had already devoted his time for some years to
the study of Tibet, and was most thorough and methodical
in all his arrangements, and especially in his astronomical
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