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To start with...
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...the onIy way to get there
is through Afghanistan.
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Kafiristan? No, no, no.
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Two white men wouId be cut to pieces
five miIes into the Khyber Pass.
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Just suppose we managed it.
Just suppose.
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And suppose we got across
the Afghan pIains, then what?
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There´s the Hindu Kush,
a frozen sea of peaks and gIaciers.
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A party of geographers tried severaI
years ago and vanished into thin air.
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No white man has ever been there
and come out since AIexander.
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AIexander who?
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AIexander the Great, king of Greece.
300 years before Christ.
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If a Greek can do it, we can do it.
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Right.
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I can onIy repeat,
you´re a pair of Iunatics!
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WouId a pair of Iunatics
draw up a contract Iike this?
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´´This contract between us, pursuing
and witnesseth in the name of God.
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One: We wiII settIe this together,
i.e., to be kings of Kafiristan.
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Two: We wiII not, whiIe this
is being settIed, Iook at Iiquor...
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...or any woman, so as to get mixed
up with one or the other harmfuI.
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Three: We act
with dignity and discretion.
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If one is in troubIe, the other stays
by him. Signed by us this day.´´
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There´s no need for the Iast articIe,
but it´s got a ring to it.
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DanieI.