From Leh I came , over the Baralachi . ' ` Yes , yes ; we know it , ' said the far-faring people of Shamlegh . ` And I slept two nights with the priests of Kailung . These are the Hills of my delight ! Shadows blessed above all other shadows ! There my eyes opened on this world ; there my eyes were opened to this world ; there I found Enlightenment ; and there I girt my loins for my Search . Out of the Hills I came -- the high Hills and the strong winds . Oh , just is the Wheel ! ' He blessed them in detail -- the great glaciers , the naked rocks , the piled moraines and tumbled shale ; dry upland , hidden salt-lake , age-old timber and fruitful water-shot valley one after the other , as a dying man blesses his folk ; and Kim marvelled at his passion . ` Yes -- yes . There is no place like our Hills , ' said the people of Shamlegh . And they fell to wondering how a man could live in the hot terrible Plains where the cattle run as big as elephants , unfit to plough on a hillside ; where village touches village , they had heard , for a hundred miles ; where folk went about stealing in gangs , and what the robbers spared the Police carried utterly away . So the still forenoon wore through , and at the end of it Kim 's messenger dropped from the steep pasture as unbreathed as when she had set out . ' I sent a word to the hakim , ' Kim explained , while she made reverence . ` He joined himself to the idolaters ? Nay , I remember he did a healing upon one of them . He has acquired merit , though the healed employed his strength for evil . Just is the Wheel ! What of the hakim ? ' ' I feared that thou hadst been bruised and -- and I knew he was wise . '
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Baralachi Kailung Kim Leh Plains hakim moraines salt-lake stealing water-shot