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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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or cold to try us. The grave, anxious look
on the men's faces passed away; they now
stepped cheerily along by my side chaffing
over all the difficulties they had gone through,
and, at each village we came to, taking a fill
of dried apricots and grapes and walnuts, so
plentiful in this fruitful valley.
The country we were now in was Baltistan,
the inhabitants of which—called Baltis—are a
patient, docile, good-natured race, whom one
hardly respects, but whom one cannot help
liking in a compassionate, pitying way. The
poor Balti belongs to one of those races which
has gone under in the struggle of nations. In
their better days the Baltis are said to have
been able to fight well; but their fighting days
are past. They could not resist the Dogra
invasion from Kashmir; and now they are
ruled by a foreign race, and because they were
such good carriers, and because the roads
through their own and the adjoining countries
were so bad, it fell out that they were employed
more and more for carrying purposes, till the
patient, long-suffering Balti coolie became a
well-known feature in the valleys of this
frontier.
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