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0154 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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doi: 10.20676/00000213
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as one of my donkey-men, and had proved the least
intelligent of the lot.
Naturally enough, the camel-men felt apprehensive of
what awaited them farther on. Remembering how easy
it would be to lose one's way completely in that maze
of clay terraces and dunes which intervenes between the
terminal lake basin of the Su-lo Ho and Besh-toghrak, I
congratulated myself at not being one of their party while
dust storms of that day's violence were blowing. The
whole party looked so forlorn that I forbore to complain
about the delay caused to my mail, and only gave them
what advice seemed needed to keep the 'guide' to the
right track. When they told me that they would halt a
day or two at Toghrak-bulak to give their camels a rest, I
regretted more than ever to have entrusted my mail to
such a terribly slow goods train.
I tried to exact compensation by asking the younger
men to come back for that time to my ruin and help in the
digging, "just to show those Khitai infidels how Mussul-
mans could wield their Ketmans." But I was not surprised
when even the offer of magnificent wages and the
chance of finding hidden treasure did not tempt the way-
worn Seven. So I let them pass on with all my good
wishes for their own and my mail-bag's safe journey. Two
weeks later I found at Toghrak-bulak the carcass of one
of their forty camels half devoured by wolves, and wondered
how many more these luckless people would lose before
reaching the green fields of Charklik. But they struggled
through, and by the close of September my letters had
safely arrived in England.