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0143 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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of former caravans, which were so faint that I
could not distinguish them even when pointed
out to me, for a camel does not leave much
impression upon gravel, like a beaten-down
path in a garden! Another of his desert-
acquired habits was that of going to sleep
walking. His natural mode of progression was
by bending right forward, and this seemed to
keep him in motion without any trouble to
himself, and he might be seen mooning along
fast asleep. These were his accomplishments.
His one failing was opium-smoking; directly
camp was pitched he would have out his pipe,
and he used to smoke off and on till we started
again. I was obliged occasionally to differ
with this gentleman; but, on the whole, we got
on well together, and my feelings towards him
at parting were more of sorrow than of anger,
for he had a hard life going backwards and
forwards up and down across the desert almost
continuously for twenty years; and his in-
veterate habit of opium-smoking had used up
all the savings he ought to have accumulated
after his hard experiences.
The Mongol assistant, whose name was
Ma-te-la, was a careless, good-natured fellow,
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