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0769 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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CHAPTER XCVII

FROM THE KUN-LUN TO LONDON

Next morning, September 23rd, I found myself suffering
from severe pains in my feet, and quite unable to move.
The serious results of my accident and the urgency of
surgical help were only too evident. I could not disguise
from myself the symptoms which made it probable that
the frost-bite had affected not merely the flesh but the
bones, too, in some of the toes, at least on the right foot.
My mountaineering manual, in which the subject was dis-
cussed at some length, plainly indicated that in such cases
gangrene would set in, and recommended that "the aid of
an experienced surgeon should be sought at once."
The advice was excellent but scarcely reassuring. For
how could I secure such aid in these inhospitable
mountains — and meanwhile might not gangrene spread
further? So all my thought and energy had now to be
concentrated on a rapid journey to Ladak. For only one
day could I halt in that bleak camp under the frowning
rock-walls to gather a little strength. I used it for sending
Lal Singh to reconnoitre the gorge eastwards where we
now located the approach to the Yangi Dawan. But he
found it after a very short distance completely choked by
snow and ice, and had to return. Evidently the advance
of a glacier had here obliterated all trace of the old route.
The pains in my feet had increased, and next day
when the start was made back to our main camp, I found
that riding on a yak, owing to the low position of the
feet, caused cruel suffering. The Kirghiz, whom many
generations of life under conditions of constant hardship
have made rather callous, absolutely refused to lend a
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