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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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and came sliding down the slope at a frightful
pace. Luckily, however, he still managed to
keep hold of the rope with one hand, and so
kept himself from dashing over the ice-fall at
the side of the slope; but when he reached the
rock his hand was almost bared of skin, and
he was shivering with fright. Wali, however,
gave him a sound rating for being so careless,
and on the next stage made him do all the
hardest part of the work.
The other men got down the slope without
mishap, and then came the last man. He, of
course, could not have the benefit of a rope to
hang on by, for he would have to untie it from
the rock and bring it with him. Wali had
selected for this, the most dangerous piece of
work in the whole descent, the man who had
especially troubled me by knocking pieces of
ice over the precipice when we were on the
ice-slope at the head of the pass. He was one
of the slaves I had released at Yarkand; an
incessant grumbler, and very rough, but, next
to Wali, the best man I had for any really hard
work. He tied the end of the rope round his
waist, and then slowly and carefully came down
the steps which had been hewn in the slope.
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