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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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uphill towards Murree, and arrived at a dak
bungalow at sunset. Here I rested for part of
the night, but at three o'clock in the morning
started again, marching the ten miles into Mur-
ree on foot. From there in a tonga I drove
rapidly down the last thirty-nine miles into
Rawal Pindi. The change was wonderful. I
had thought riding a miserable native pony a
luxury in comparison with the weary marching
on foot. Then trundling along at a jog-trot in
a native cart on the Kashmir road had seemed
the very essence of all that was comfortable.
But now I was in a conveyance with a pair of
ponies galloping down the hill, and with what
seemed perfect rest to me was covering every
hour three or four times the distance I had
been able to accomplish on foot. Still better, I
was freeing myself from the nightmare of the
mountains, and, in place of the never-ending
barriers of ranges blocking the way and shutting
me in, there was stretched out before me the
wide open plains of the Punjab. From the
plains of Turkestan on the one side, I had made
my way through the labyrinth of mountains,
over one range after another, past each suc-
ceeding obstacle, till I had now reached the
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