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0024 Among the Celestials : vol.1
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I should be able to do, with just about enough
food for the whole day as would form a decent
breakfast for a man in hard work. And yet
there was a delicious sense of satisfaction as
each long day's march was over, as each snowy
pass was crossed, each new valley entered, and
the magnificent health and strength which came
therewith inspired me with the feeling of being
able to go anywhere and do anything that it
was within the powers of man to do.

From this first tour through the Himalayas I
came back with the exploring fever thoroughly
on me, and I plunged incessantly into books of
travel. But the immediate cause of my first
big journey was Mr. James.* It was by the
greatest piece of good fortune that we came
together. We met first at a dinner-party at
Simla, and the conversation between us turned
on Yarkand and Kashgar. (I would beg my
readers thoroughly to impress upon their minds
the position of these places, for their names
will frequently be mentioned throughout this
book.) I naturally waxed eloquent on the