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the camp. fires- still marked. The springs which had supplied us . in .1896 were almost dry, but- another._ was found. IDalbir Rai . and I betook ourselves to survey "operations, but the •:ground about " Fever Camp " did not admit of sufficiently long bases, and we sent a man to looI for water' ten or twelve miles to the east, where, . at the foot of high mountains, there was abundance- of grass, The search was -successful, and we nwved our -camp to the new ground. To make sure of obtaining good trigonometrical_ values for the longitude of this camp (No: i10),- we- jôined the triangulation carried out
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there - to that performed at " Fever Camp." By this
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nléans bases- of . about eight to twelve miles were - obtained and connection made with the survey. executed in 1896-Still; much remained- to be done, for the chain of triangles begun at Aksu was not yet satisfactorily linked to that of "Fever Camp " (Camp 109) and Camp 110.
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