An Isolated Existence. 



did not come up to the Hunza Valley in the immensity of its 

 sublime grandeur. 



There are a few houses in Khaibar village, the inhabitants 

 of which must lead a dull and gloomy life, shut in as they are 

 by the mountains and practically cut off from the outside world. 

 But then the Oriental is differently constituted to his Western 

 brother. 



THE MIGHTY CANYONS OF THE KANJUT RIYER, 



Later in the Hi Su I met some Tajik villagers who had never 

 gone beyond their own rocky fastnesses and knew nothing of 

 the Taghdumbash Pamir, 20 miles away, or of the country 

 further down the nullah. Such characteristics are inexplicable 

 to the European, and especially to the energetic Anglo-Saxon ; 

 the desire to explore and push into the unknown being innate 

 in our race. As Rudyard Kipling has aptly expressed it, " East 

 is East and West is West, and ne'er the twain shall meet." 



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