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Rh had come, where we should have no need for a guide.

Although this decision had been formed some time previously, it was not the less with sorrowful hearts that we bade farewell to the banks of the Yangtse-kiang. For well we knew that neither nature nor man stood in our way, and that the want of funds was the only obstacle to our reaching the capital of Tibet.