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CHAPTER X. 



KASHGAR TO THE KARAART PAMIR. 



THE CAPTURE OF DAD MAHOMED EUROPEANS AT KASHGAR 



A FRESH START BY THE RIVER ULUART ACROSS THE 



KOSH-BELI PASS THE POLI DISAPPEAR A LONG SHOT. 



THERE is nothing more delightful than a meeting 

 with a friend after a long lonely wandering in a 

 strange country : the amount of news to be heard, 

 the questions to be asked, and the notes that 

 have to be compared, are matters of the deepest 

 interest. To begin with, I was both astonished 

 and delighted to hear that Dad Mahomed the 

 murderer had been taken. Such a stroke of luck 

 was most unexpected : although a rumour to that 

 effect had reached me, it was so improbable that 

 I did not believe it. 



The capture was brought about in this way. 

 After Bower and I had parted, he heard on 



