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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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There are many things one looks back to
on a journey, but few things cheered me so
much in my more dejected moments as the
vivid recollection I used to keep of what I felt
were the sincerely meant good wishes of the
friends I had left at Peking.
Then I rode out of the gateway and beyond
the walls of the city, and was fairly launched
on my journey. Just a few pangs of depression
and a few spectres of difficulties appeared at
first, and then they vanished for good ; and,
as the hard realities of the journey began to
make themselves felt, I braced myself up and
prepared to face whatever might occur, without
thinking of what was behind.
With me at starting was one Chinese servant
who had accompanied Mr. James through
Manchuria, and who was to act as interpreter,
but who afterwards gave up when we came
to the edge of the desert ; and a second,
Liu-san, who eventually travelled with me the
whole way to India, acting in turn as inter-
preter, cook, table-servant, groom, and carter.
He served me well and faithfully, he was
always hard-working and willing to face the
difficulties of the road ; and when I think of
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