After we got back to the obo, we directed our steps towards the north-west, crossing on our way over three of the denticulated crests which I have mentioned. The first has a very inconsiderable pass; while the other two are pierced by the more easterly of the two glens down which brooks were flowing. Beside the rivulet
were three nomad tents, and from our outlook above we had seen three others standing on the plain at the south-east foot of the mountain. In the bifurcation of the third crest, on the right bank of the stream, there is a grotto, consisting of two divisions, an outer and an inner, and separated from one another by a wall of re-