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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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owner of the one we applied to was very surly,
but eventually agreed to give us accommodation
for the night.
It was, therefore, with no very grateful
feelings towards him that we left his camp on
the following morning. We travelled hard all
day, and, at the end of a march of forty-six
miles, over a country mostly composed of bare
hills and gravel plains, but with occasional
clumps of trees in the hollows, we reached a
wide plain of light clay, in the middle of which
we found a large encampment of fully a hun-
dred tents, and the people, besides keeping
large flocks and herds, also cultivated a con-
siderable amount of land. I noticed, too, some
houses scattered here and there over the culti-
vated part of the plain, but was told that these
were merely storehouses. The Kirghiz said
that houses were good enough to put stores of
grain in, but they would never run the risk of
living in any erection which might fall down
like a house! The inhabitants of this encamp-
ment were far from friendly, and it was only
after considerable difficulty that a man was
found who was willing to put us up. Rahmat-
ula-Khan was most tactful and persuasive, but
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