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0020 Among the Celestials : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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CHAPTER I.

THE EVER-WHITE MOUNTAIN.

What it was that first started me off
wanderings, which for ten years led me
large a portion of Asia, it is difficult to s
exactly. But I think the first seeds of dis
content at staying still were sown in t
summer of 1884, when I had obtained a fe
months leave from my regiment, the Ki
Dragon Guards, then stationed at Raw
pindi, in the Punjab, and made use of it
ther through some of the lower ranges of t
Himalaya.

My instinct first led me to Dharmsala,
many years the home of my uncle, Rob
Shaw, who, with Hayward, was the fi
Englishman to push his way through