 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1870 - 712 Seiten
...Lingzi Thung plains and the Aksai Chin. After exploring the country at the head of the Yarkand River, it only remained for us to make the best of our way back to Kufelong ; and, as Aktâgh lay up the branch valley joining there, we had thus missed the man sent... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 516 Seiten
...the rustling leaves. Silently we lay on our oars, or rather paddles ; not a sound of the flying eanoe could be heard : it was evident that the scout had...canoe after us. To this, however, the Malays would in no wise listen, and spoke so earnestly of the danger arising from a particular kind of snake, that... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 522 Seiten
...a sound of the flying canoe could be heard : it was evident that the scout had escaped, and it ouly remained for us to make the best of our way back again...canoe after us. To this, however, the Malays would in no wise listen, and spoke so earnestly of the danger arising from a particular kind of snake, that... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1869 - 892 Seiten
...Karakoram, and west of the Karakoram Pass. After exploring the country at the head of the Yarkand Eiver, it only remained for us to make the best of our way back to Kufelong ; and, as Aktagh lay up the branch valley joining there, we had thus missed the man sent... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1870 - 422 Seiten
...Kavakorani, and west of the Karakoram Pass. After exploring the country at the head of the Yarkand River, it only remained for us to make the best of our way back to Kufelong ; and, as Aktagh lay up the branch valley joining there, we had thus missed the man sent... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1870 - 536 Seiten
...Karakoram, and west of the Karakoram Pass. After exploring the country at the head of the Yarkand River, it only remained for us to make the best of our way back to Kufelong ; and, as Aktagh lay up the branch valley joining there, we had thus missed the man sent... | |
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Silently we lay on our oars, or rather paddles ; not a sound of the flying eanoe could be heard : it was evident that the scout had escaped, and it only remained for us to make the best of our way back again — a task which, in the absence of all excitement,... 