Now I succeeded, I arrived in [Kabul where there is European help for the car. I got another lord spring into my rear axle and feel safe with them now. We also detect-Jed a broken chassis trame which had! to be- welded. Brakes and speedmometer also were repaired. My' tires were patched outside with pieces of Jold cloth stitched together with. cotton strings, performed by a_native tailor. The' sharp stones, cut the best Jmaterial to pieces. Once the radiator rather tropical vegetation with Ieaked and had to be refilled every hour. And this had to be done in the desert, where there was no. water, My last drop had to be used to bring the car, though boiling to. the next sown, 'There a paste of starch and albumen of eggs mended the leak until the ext' garage could be reached, From Kabul, 200 kin, will bring us through a part of the Hindukusch Mountains to the Kyber Pass into India and into civilization with plenty of good motor roads. I hope 1 shalt reach India with my repaired car in two or three days. I shall proceed, [Arst up to Kashmir and then over the Ganges plain to Calcutta. 1 have taken marvellous films, which will explain much better" than words travel conditions in. Iran and At In Kabul I stayed in the tourist resthouse of the Lufthansa and fell newly born after bath and a night's rest ina bed with springs, Actually I drove 25. days through desert country with intervals of small green onses and the stops in different towns like Bagdad, Teheran, Resht, Moshev and Kabul.
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