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472 ADVENTURES IN TIBET.
On the 14th January the first tonga, or travelhng cart,
stood ready waiting for us outside the hospitable door
of Captain and Mrs. Le Mesurier at Srinagar, with whom
I had spent a couple of days that I shall not readily forget.
From that city, 5,250 feet above sea level, we were driven
at headlong speed down the winding rocky roadways,
where nothing but a low breastwork of stone protects
you from the abysses below, to lower and warmer climes.
One of the Courtyards of the Temple of Tikkseh.
Every half-hour we changed horses, a process which only
took a couple of minutes, for the driver signalled his
arrival beforehand by a melodious blast on a horn. It
was quite dark when we drove through the long straight
streets of Rawal-pindi. There was just an hour before
the train left. The train ! How strange it was to hear
the shrill whistle of the locomotive after spending so
many months amid the silence of the deserts and the
solitude of the Tibetan wilderness !
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