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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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a vast river of pure white ice, broken up into
myriads of sharp needle-like points. Snowy
mountains rose above us on either hand, and
down their sides rolled the lesser glaciers, like
clotted cream pouring over the lip of a cream-
jug; and rising forbiddingly before us was the
cold icy range we should have to cross.
This, marvellous as it was to look upon, was
scarcely the country through which to take a
caravan of ponies, but I made out a line of
moraine extending right up the main glacier.
We got on to this, and, following it up for
some distance, found, to our great relief, that
it would be quite possible to bring ponies up it
on to the smooth snow of the névé at the head
of the glacier. Having ascertained this beyond
a doubt, we returned late in the afternoon
towards the spot where we had left our ponies.
Darkness, however, overtook us before we
reached it. We wandered about on the glacier
for some time, and nearly lost our way; but
at last, quite worn out, reached our little
caravan once more.
That night we held a council of war as to
which of the two Mustagh Passes we should
attack. There are two passes, known as the
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