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242 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. IX.

we set about preparing to send back supplies

to the men and ponies on the other side of

Mustagh Pass. With great difficulty we in-

duced the people to do this ; and on the

following day a party was started off back

towards the Mustagh Pass. They took with

them ropes and poles, and though three men

were badly injured in doing so, they succeeded

in crossing the pass and giving my men the

needful supplies.

I would now willingly have had a rest, but,

though I could not start on the day following

our arrival, for I was seriously unwell from

having, in the excess of my hunger, eaten too

much of the messy greasy dishes the inhabi-

tants had provided for me, on the day after I

set out to explore the other Mustagh Pass—

what is called the New Mustagh Pass. It was

depressing, just as I had reached the first

village on the Indian side, to have to turn my

back on India ; but I did not like to leave this

pass untried, and with Wali and a party of men

from Askoli we set out on the second day after

our arrival to explore it.

These men of Askoli were in dread of the

mountains, and on the first evening, at the foot

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