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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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to go everywhere in the two months, which
was all I then had available. The scenery of
such valleys as those of Kangra and Kulu was
enchanting, and then came the excitement of
preparing to cross my first snow-pass. I had
pictured to myself every imaginable horror
from descriptions in books (written, of course,
as I afterwards understood, from experiences
at exceptional seasons), and I can still recall
my disappointment at finding that all these
horrors had degenerated down to simple heart-
breaking plodding through soft deep snow hour
after hour, with an icy wind blowing, and the
sun striking down on the top of my head and
combining with the rarefaction of the air to
give me as bad a headache as I ever had.
Then, too, the feeling of disgust and despair
at the sight of those bare brown mountains
which lie beyond the first forest-clad zone of
the Himalayas, their cold and almost repellent
appearance, which clearly warns the traveller
against entering their rigid clutches—all this I
remember well, as well as the rawness and in-
experience of the whole of my arrangements,
and the discovery that I could not march for
twenty or thirty miles a day, as I had imagined
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