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0119 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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CHAPTER V.

PEKING TO THE GOBI DESERT.

" And o'er him many changing scenes must roll,
Ere toil his thirst for travel can assuage."
—Byron.

To return to the narrative of my travels,
while I was waiting in Peking news arrived
that Colonel M. S. Bell, V.C., of the Royal
Engineers, was to come there and travel thence
straight through overland to India. I knew
Colonel Bell, having served under him in the
Intelligence Department in India, so I im-
mediately decided upon asking him to allow
me to accompany him. Here was the oppor-
tunity for which I had longed. Here was a
chance of visiting that hazy mysterious land
beyond the Himalayas, and actually seeing
Kashgar and Yarkand, with whose names I
had been acquainted from my boyhood through
the letters of my uncle, Robert Shaw. A