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0287 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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A bed was brought me to lie on, and then, with
a stewed fowl and some rice to eat, fresh life
and energy came into me, and I could realise
the satisfaction of having reached the first
inhabited spot in Indian territory.

But that was a dirty little village! The
trees and the fields looked fresh and green, and
were a delight to us after the cold and barren
mountains, but the houses and the inhabitants
were repulsively dirty; and the latter by no
means well-disposed. Mountain people are
always nervous about strangers, and these had
thought the way into their country from the
north was entirely closed, and did not at all
welcome this living proof that it was not.
Wali, the guide, was himself a native of the
village, which he had left some thirty years
before. Another of my men also belonged to
it. But they said they feared the people would
do them some injury for having shown me the
way, and they kept by me constantly, and left
the village with me, subsequently returning to
Yarkand by Leh and the Karakoram Pass,
instead of directly by the Mustagh Pass, as
hey might have done.

Immediately we had had something to eat,

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