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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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brushwood to keep up a fire for cooking; but
my Chinese servant cooked a simple meal of
rice and mutton for us all. We gathered round
the fire to eat it hot out of the bowl, and then
rolled ourselves up in our sheepskins and went
to sleep, with the stars twinkling brightly
above, and the frost gripping closer and closer
upon us.
Next morning, while it was yet dark, Wali,
the guide, awoke us. We each had a drink of
tea and some bread, and then we started off to
attack the pass. The ponies, with nearly all
the baggage, were left behind under the charge
of Liu-san, the Chinaman, and some of the
older men. All we took with us was a roll of
bedding for myself, a sheepskin coat for each
man, some native biscuits, tea and a large tea-
kettle, and a bottle of brandy. The ascent to
the pass was easy but trying, for we were now
not far from nineteen thousand feet above sea-
level, and at that height, walking uphill through
deep snow, we quickly became exhausted. We
could only take a dozen or twenty steps at a
time, and we would then bend over on our
sticks and pant as if we had been running hard
uphill. We were tantalised, too, by the
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