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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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the Karakoram Pass, saying he had just heard
of my being in Chinese Turkestan, and telling
me, instead of following him along the well-
known and extremely barren and uninteresting
route by Leh to India, to try the unexplored
but direct road by the Mustagh Pass on
Baltistan and Kashmir. This was a sugges-
tion which delighted me. It was something
quite new, and promised to be difficult enough
to be really worth doing. I therefore set to
with my preparations for it with a will.
The first thing, of course, was to get guides.
Fortunately, there are a large number of Baltis
—about two thousand—settled in the Yarkand
district, and the Kashmir Aksakal said he
would easily be able to obtain men for me.
Then ponies had to be collected. Here, too,
there was no difficulty, for Yarkand abounds in
ponies, and I used to examine thirty or forty a
day. Sheepskin coats for the men, supplies for
the road, shoes for the ponies, etc., could also
be easily procured. So, having set one or two
of the merchants to work at these preparations,
I took a look round Yarkand.
Hitherto, since leaving Peking, I had pur-
posely kept from visiting the Chinese officials,
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