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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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as bare as a well-kept garden drive. I lay
down on the ground and slept till Liu-san
brought me some soup and tinned beef. We
started again at four, watched the sun rise
again, marched through the whole morning
right up to three in the afternoon, passing over
the most desolate country I have ever seen.
Nothing we had passed hitherto could compare
with it—a succession of gravel ranges without
a sign of life, animal or vegetable, and not a
drop of water. We were gradually descending
to a very low level, the sun was getting higher
and higher, and the wind hotter and hotter,
until I shrank from it as from the blast of a
furnace, and would often put my hand up to
shield my face. Only the hot winds of the
Punjab could be likened to it.
Fortunately we still had some water in the
casks, brought from our last camping-ground,
and we had some bread, so we were not on
our last legs ; but the march was trying enough
for the men, and much more so for the camels,
for they had nothing to eat or drink, and the
heat both days was extreme. The guide called
the distance two hundred and thirty li, and I
reckon it at about seventy miles. We were
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