three parts of a tempest all the following day. At times we had to go on foot to prevent ourselves from getting frozen. When you walk in such a gale along a moderately steep slope, it is as if you were walking on the level ground, and when you walk on the level ground, it is as if you were struggling up a slope. In the teeth of such a wind both horses and camels advanced laboriously, their efforts proving a great drain upon their strength. Had we only been travelling east, what a help it would have been to us ! At about 4.3o p. m. the gale abated, though it still continued to blow at the rate of 14.3 m. in the second; but occasionally there came brief gusts with fully twice that velocity.
Plate 29 reproduces the western half of the range which borders Dschivutsaga and its level latitudinal valley on the north, the scene being that which we beheld from Camp CX. To the N. i8° E. rises a commanding peak, and to the N. 19° W. the extreme western peak of the range. This chain consists for the most part of rugged hard rock, and has a gravelly scree stretching from its foot down into the valley. From Camp CXI the range is seen foreshortened, its extreme westerly peak bearing north-north-east. Beyond this range to the north there appeared to be another latitudinal valley, not very broad however; but the route which Littledale followed, and which we had all the time on our right hand, seemed to lie along a valley still farther towards the north. The nearest latitudinal valley to the north of Camp CXI is connected in that same direction with the valley in which the Dschivu-tsaga is situated. The mountain-ranges which blocked our view in that quarter were not particularly high. Two routes were said to lead to the next camping-ground, and of these, the more northerly one, which crosses over a pass, is the shorter; but the other, to the south, does not cross any pass. I chose
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