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CHAPTER III. 



START FOR CHINESE TURKISTAN. 



PREPARATIONS FOR TRIP TO CHINESE TURKISTAN AND PAMIRS 



PROCURE A GUIDE START WITH CAPTAIN BOWER BY THE 



SCIND VALLEY BAGGAGE PONY DROWNED GOVERNMENT 



INTERFERES M. DAUVERGNE JOINS US CLIMBING THE 



KHARDUNG PASS THE SPOT WHERE DALGLEISH WAS 



MURDERED A COURT OF INQUIRY. 



BEING now a free man, having completed twenty 

 years' service and sent in my papers, time was 

 no longer a matter of consideration. I there- 

 fore began my preparations for the trip so long 

 thought of, to the new dominion of Chinese 

 Turkistan, having previously applied for a pass- 

 port, about which there was considerable difficulty. 

 The Foreign Office handed the application 

 over to the India Office, the India Office to the 

 Foreign Office in India. Finally, the Foreign 

 Office in India said the Foreign Office in Eng- 



