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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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gets only a lunch—not a dinner. If one starts from
a mountain-base, such as Darjeeling or Ladak Leh,
the animals are hardier than those recruited in Tur-
kestan. But even these are not accustomed to
regular life at elevations above fourteen thousand
feet, and the increase to an average of sixteen
thousand feet, which must be met in any consider-
able journey on the plateau, seems to tell on even
the hardiest.
The first to succumb was Captain Anginieur's
mount, a high-bred animal with too much mettle.
For about ten days after ascending the Polu gorge
he continued to be ready for a morning gallop. He
soon dropped, fell several times under his rider,
tried to follow the caravan, bearing a nominal load;
then, on another day, without load, he stumbled
forward several times, bleeding at the mouth as he
recovered; finally, gave it up, and when I last saw
him he was on his knees. Anginieur did not like
the thought of shooting him; the cold of the night
must have promptly done the bullet's quicker work.
My own mount, an excellent Kashgar purchase,
died one night a few days after he had made a noble
effort for his salvation and mine. We had made a
hard march the day before and went into a dry
camp, moistened a little, however, by water carried
in my rubber bed from the previous camp.
We were moving in a valley about ten miles wide.
Small streams coming from the neighbouring snow-
tops wandered lazily over level surfaces, and often
disappeared almost while you watched them. At
night they were frozen. We ought to reach them
early enough to let the animals drink liquid water.
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