The Archive · 1920

Dusty Dismissed

Finally the time came fur a general packing up. Dusty sat apart and sulked while my camels were brought in and made to kneel When the saddles were adjusted within three or four days. We want nothing more to do with you."

The first string of camels moved silently off to the southwest, then another and then another. No one nid goodbye to Dusty, so he put his bundle on a rock," sat down upon it and cried bitterly while the caravan filed past the white granite monument that marks the Mongol border and trailed away into the sunset in the direction of Sanyen-

Burr Photo The proc roads proceeds Here is the far end of Bubbling Well Road ith the bubbling well safely perched on an island and the thongs on the boxes hitched together over them with wooden pegs, he came forward shyly and suggested that his bundle was not yet in place. All operations coos: ed. I had already given him more than was due to him for the period he had served, but before the assembled company I produced a dollar—which is no small sum in Kansu where it will buy food and lodging for a. frugal pedestrian over a ten days' journey—and pointed to Yingpanshui down the valley. "There", said I, "is Yingpanshui. ching where Abbe Hue 60. years ago experienced some difficulty in passing the Great Wall.

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