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FROZEN FAST. 8i
warning, a harbinger of the long winter sleep, during which
the fish seek refuge in the clear water of the creeks and
side-lagoons. All the Lop-men were now out with their
canoes, busy catching fish for the winter.
Of a morning we had to chop out our boats with axes and
iron bars, and the ropes and cables were frozen stiff. The
frost was very keen, for although we had fires both fore and
aft, we nevertheless froze. Pushing out amongst the drift-
rlt^ iiart’"t
Drifl-ice on the Lower Tarim.
ice, we continued our journey amidst its dancing, whirhng
disks. Watching them gave us a new occupation. They
were always most numerous in the current. They were
drawn into the eddies, where they whirled round and
round until they became so crowded that some of them
were pushed back again into the current. They grounded
on the sand-banks just below the surface and thus gave
us timely warning of them. They swam merrily down-
stream like small islands, grating noisily one against the
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