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THE GREAT START—SHEREB LAMA. 297
therefore, very well make a start without their getting
to hear of it, and they would then soon have ferreted out
that we were bound for Tibet. They would be pretty
sure to reach the neighbourhood of Lassa before we did,
and would consequently warn the Tibetan authorities
of our approach. When, therefore, we left Charkhlik on
the morning of the 17th May we made a detour in the
opposite direction, before we durst bend our steps towards
the mountain-ranges that shut in Tibet on the north.
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