Outing . Painted by H. Sandham. BREAKING THE TRAIL Engraved by DalzieL. WORLDTOUR AVHI iLc CONCLUDED BY OUTINGS SPECIALCORRESPONDENT. had fully warned me against venturingthrough Deli Baba alone, advising meto wait and go through in the companyof a caravan ; but warnings of dangerhad been so often repeated throughoutmy journey, and had proven groundlessso invariably, that I should have feltthe taunts of self-reproach had I foundmyself hesitating on their account.* I wound slowly upwards through amountainous elevated region until I be-gan to descend, along the tortuous wind-ings of the Deli Bab
Outing . Painted by H. Sandham. BREAKING THE TRAIL Engraved by DalzieL. WORLDTOUR AVHI iLc CONCLUDED BY OUTINGS SPECIALCORRESPONDENT. had fully warned me against venturingthrough Deli Baba alone, advising meto wait and go through in the companyof a caravan ; but warnings of dangerhad been so often repeated throughoutmy journey, and had proven groundlessso invariably, that I should have feltthe taunts of self-reproach had I foundmyself hesitating on their account.* I wound slowly upwards through amountainous elevated region until I be-gan to descend, along the tortuous wind-ings of the Deli Baba Su, through an-other ravine-riven battle-field of the latewar. Farther on I descended into a rockycanon with perpendicular walls toweringskyward like giantbattlements,inclosinga space not over fifty yards wide. Thecanon is a wild, lonely-looking spot, andlooks quite appropriate to the reputa-tion it bears. Professor Vambery, arecognized authority on Asiatic mat-ters, and whose party encountered agang of marauders here, says the DeliBaba Pass bore the same unsavory
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