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CHAPTER XV.
SEVENTEEN THOUSAND FEET ABOVE THE SEA.
After various adventures, which I have not space to relate,
and after yet another dangerous boat-excursion across one
of the more westerly lakes, we arrived, tired and stiff with
cold, late one night, in a violent storm and blinding snow,
at Turdu Bai’s camp. Aldat brought me as a surprise
four fat orongo antelopes, which provided us with meat
for the immediate future. This camp. No. XLIV., counting
from the start, was the turning-point of the journey. We
could not venture to go farther south, for we had only
brought provisions to last 2^ months, and it was already
50 days since we started. But before leaving this part
of Tibet there was one other excursion I wanted to make.
To the south was a mountain-mass covered with snow.
It looked inviting, so I made up my mind I would try to
get to the south of it, and chose Cherdon and Aldat to
accompany me. Meanwhile, the caravan was to travel,
on leveller ground, by the north side of the mountain, and
it was arranged that we should meet at its western extremity
at the end of four days. Whichever party arrived first
was to wait for the other. As for us, it was hardly possible
that we could miss the caravan’s trail, but for safety’s
sake, in case we should miss the caravan, we took with us
all the ammunition that Aldat had left. Followed by the
two men, I rode up towards the mountain through winding
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