Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . A B 44. SURVEYOR RAI RAM SINGH (A) WITH JASVANT SINGH (B) STARTING FROM 45. PAKHPU HILLMEN ANTHROPOMETRICALLY EXAMINED AT KOK-YAR. THE TAKING OF PAKHPU * HEADS 149 were a natural consequence. I myself escaped withfrequent and, to confess the truth, often welcome offeringsof fresh vegetables, with which the * Lao-ye was keptsupplied by his friends at Karghalik, and which it waseasy to return with little presents of my own. While day after day passed in busy work the fruit wasripe
Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . A B 44. SURVEYOR RAI RAM SINGH (A) WITH JASVANT SINGH (B) STARTING FROM 45. PAKHPU HILLMEN ANTHROPOMETRICALLY EXAMINED AT KOK-YAR. THE TAKING OF PAKHPU * HEADS 149 were a natural consequence. I myself escaped withfrequent and, to confess the truth, often welcome offeringsof fresh vegetables, with which the * Lao-ye was keptsupplied by his friends at Karghalik, and which it waseasy to return with little presents of my own. While day after day passed in busy work the fruit wasripening even at my hill-station. Delicious little apricotsbegan to drop around my tent, and their glow of yellowishpink among the leafage was a joy for the eye. In myegotistic seclusion I never realized that I was keeping myhosts children from a perpetual feast, until one evening,returning earlier than expected, I found the garden invadedby a swarm of boys who were busy gorging themselves onthe trees. After that I arranged that there should be adaily shaking ; yet ripe apricots were ever falling as thewind rose, and I soon grew accustomed to hear them dropon my tent fly and to
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