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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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exasperated to find that, instead of having ten
or twenty miles more to accomplish, there was
still a good fifty. So on striking camp at two
the following afternoon, I told my men that my
tent would not be pitched again till Hami was
reached, and they had better prepare themselves
therefore for a good march.
We travelled on all through the afternoon—
a particularly hot one ; then the sun set before
us, and still we went on and on through the
night till it rose again behind us. We halted
for a couple of hours by the roadside to ease
the camels, and then set out again. At eight
o'clock the desert ended, and we began to
pass through cultivated land. At last we saw
Hami in the distance, and after traversing a
tract of country covered with more ruined
than inhabited houses, we reached an inn at
11 A.M.
With unspeakable relief I dismounted from
my camel for the last time. The desert
journey was now over, and I had completed
the 1255 miles from Kwei-hwa-cheng in just
seventy days ; in the last week of which I had
travelled 224 miles, including the crossing of
the Tian-shan Mountains. One great stage
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