IIIF Color HighRes
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SAROZ KUL.
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Accident, however, proved to be less serious : a pony : laden with bedding and a small cane trunk containing
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by a proièeting ro-ck, and the pony precipitated over the
very rocky mountain-side. Sonam, in a gallant but unsudcessful attempt to save the pony, had been kicked
7 in the face and had many of his teeth knocked out. The
bedcling was found. uninjured, but the cane trunk was
smashed and its contents scattei-ed. The low banks of the .
dry water-courses, which ran so as to form a sort of delta, • afforded some slight protection from the sleet, but the
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in.getting hotter for tea. The men, however., did not - pass - this.. cold: and cheerless night supperless ; but the :-animals received nothing more than a small feed of
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Next morning the weather was good, and in a fevi
hours the sun shone. brightly. Giving my riding pony
-.-: to Ram Singh, a went with Rabzung to look after' the
donkeys ; for in the .ascent of the At To Pass, their loads
.•constantly slipped back, and, when we reached the summit,
, they had to be rearranged for the descent. The . sur-
...: k: -rounding mountains, covered with snow to their bases,
presented an aspect very different from their appe.arance in September, and it was not easy to guide the caravan by the direct route to Saroz KUL which 'was invisible till we were within a few miles. of it. I had hoped to-halt at Camp 115, but therewas no water-near that spot, and we pitched our tents -between low mounds of whitish clay close to Saroz Kul. Both Ram Singh and I had begun to' feel the effects of the exposiire and hardship we had undergone since Leaving Polu. The temperature of the air was only 33P 11:, but our. bodies had abnormally higli temperatures, though at 9 p.m., .when "'retired for the
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wbpd---we had Tor-fuel was damp, and there was difficulty
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