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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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seemed to be in a perfect paradise, and the
desert journey appeared a terrible nightmare
behind me. The signs of life all round so strik-
ing after the death-like silence of the desert,
lightened me as a breath of fresh air. The
twittering of the birds and the hum of insects
in comparison with the quiet of the Gobi,
appeared like London's central roar, and I felt
myself once again to be amid animate nature.
Vegetation too was everywhere more abundant
now, and on the northern slopes of some of the
hills I even saw patches of pine forests.
On July 22 we passed a small square-walled
town called Ching-cheng, surrounded by fields
of wheat and some good grass land ; but when
these ended the desert began again directly.
A long way off over the desert we could see
a couple of poplar trees rising out of the plain,
which I fondly hoped might be Hami, our
destination. We reached these at twelve at
night, and found a few soldiers stationed there,
who said that Hami was still far distant. Now,
as my constant inquiry for the last month had
been, "How far are we from Hami?" and as
the guide for the last few days had each time
said we were only sixty miles distant, I was
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