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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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observations. We had many long conversations together, and
I remember being particularly struck with a remark of his
regarding the feeling between the French and the Germans. He
said that neither he nor the majority of Frenchmen desired to
bring on a war with Germany, but that if the Germans ever
brought a war on he would at once enlist as a private soldier.
In the Franco-German war he had served as an officer.
Having secured the necessary transport, M. de Rhins, with his
companion, set out for Tibet. Macartney and I rode out of the
town with them, and we parted with many assurances of good-
will, and after making arrangements to meet one day in Paris.
I afterwards received a couple of letters from M. de Rhins, from
Tibet ; but he never returned from there. He was attacked by
Tibetans, his arms were bound to his body with ropes, and he
was thrown into a river and drowned ; and so died one of the
most hardy, plucky, and persevering of explorers whom France
has sent out. Three years after leaving Kashgar his com-
panion, M. Grenard, returned to Paris, and is now engaged in
publishing the results of the journey.
These were our visitors, but we had also the company of
a permanent European resident in Kashgar, Père Hendriks, the
Dutch missionary, whom I had met here in 1887, and who still
remains there. Regularly every day he used to come round
for a chat and walk with us, and even now he writes to me
every few months. His is lonely and uphill work, and he often
appeared pressed down by the weight of obstacles which beset
his way. But his enthusiasm and hopefulness were unbounded,
and no kinder-hearted man exists. Many of his methods of
conversion used to surprise me, and he certainly was not viewed
with favour by the Russian authorities ; but he was a man who
had travelled much and studied much, and he was ready to talk
in any language, from Mongol to English, and upon any subject,
from the geological structures of the Himalayas, to his various
conflicts with the Russian authorities. It would astonish people
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