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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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below, would slip and fall and cut their knees
and hocks about in a way which went directly
to my heart. I did not see how this sort of
thing could last. We had only advanced a few
hundred yards, and there were still from fifteen
to twenty miles of glacier ahead. I therefore
halted the ponies for the day, and went on with
a couple of men to reconnoitre. We fortunately
found, in between the glacier and the mountain-
side, a narrow stretch of less impracticable
ground, along which it would be possible to
take the ponies. This we marked out, and
returned to our bivouac after dark.
That night we passed, as usual, in the open,
thoroughly exhausted after the hard day's work,
for at the high altitudes we had now reached
the rarefaction of the air makes one tired very
quickly, and the constant tumbling about on
the slippery glacier in helping the ponies over
it added to one's troubles. My boots were cut
through, my hands cut all over, and my elbows
a mass of bruises.
At daybreak on the following morning we
started again, leading the ponies up the route
we had marked out ; but a mile from the point
where our previous exploration had ended we
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