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^4 ADVENTURES IN TIBET.
and disappeared like corks behind the next bend. Some-
how or other Kader managed to get through all right,
for, after a good long interval, he made his appearance
wet and dripping like a drowned cat, leading his horse
by the bridle. Strange to say, having found a passable
ford, we managed to cross the river tolerably dry-shod.
Fording the Kizil-su.
The caravan with which on the 5th September, 1899, I
left Kashgar consisted of 15 magnificent camels, 12 horses,
and a whole retinue of servants. Of the horses, none
survived the journey, of the camels only two. I must
now introduce two of my Mussulman attendants, Turdu Bai
and Faisullah, a couple of white-bearded old men from
Russian Turkestan, who during the whole of the time
they were with me served me with exemplary fidelity.
On the other hand Nias Hadji, notwithstanding his pilgrim-
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