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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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We were now once more on the Indian side of the great
watershed of Central Asia, and all we had to do was to push
on as rapidly as we could to India. We reached Gilgit on
October 13, and after a few days' halt with Colonel Durand,
who was still carrying on his work there, pressed on to Kashmir.
Two years before, I had crossed the passes in that direction in
the middle of December, and it did not strike me that there
could be any difficulty at this season, when we were not yet
through October. But this year the winter had closed in
unusually early; there had been very heavy snowstorms, and
consequently, when we came to the Burzil, a pass thirteen
thousand four hundred feet in height, we found that a
detachment of Gurkhas coming over it had suffered very
severely. The evening we arrived there this detachment of
two hundred men was expected, and we prepared dinner for
the officers. But it was not till nearly one o'clock at night
that any arrived, and then we heard that the mules carrying
their baggage had stuck in the snow; the officers and men
had worked for the whole of the day and halfway through
the night to get them along, but the poor animals and their
unfortunate native drivers—all of them, animals and men,
from the plains of India, and unacquainted with cold and
snow—had not been able to perform the task. The animals
had to be unloaded in the narrow path through the snow,
and left there till morning, while the men got what shelter
they could in the woods farther on, near the camping-ground.
When Captain Barratt, the officer in command, arrived, he
complained of a pain in his foot, and this proved to be a
severe frost-bite, which laid him up for nearly six months,
and through which he lost three toes. Altogether there were
one hundred and thirty-two cases of frost-bite among the
men and followers of that detachment, who, coming up
suddenly from the heat of India, were unable to withstand
the unexpected cold.
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