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camel, and discover the relic of the Lop - nor of the 
Chinese cartographers. Thence we shall make a forced 
march of some hundreds of miles back to Khotan. After 
that we shall cross the highlands and plateaus of Northern 
Tibet to the lake-basins of Tsaidam and make the ac- 
quaintance of Mongols, Tanguts, and Tibetans ; then 
proceed through Kan-su, Ala-shan, Ordos, and Northern 
China ; and finally, after travelling for three and a half 
years, reach the goal I had all along in view — namely 
Peking. 
With all these vast vistas before me, I feel I must 
quicken my pace. But I cannot pass on without pausing 
for a little to describe one very important episode of my 
^^95 journey over the Pamirs. But it must have a 
chapter or two to itself. 
