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WESTWARDS TO LEH. 461
my water-ewer was frozen to the bottom, and the ink
froze in my pen unless I sat leaning over a brazier. The
temperature was now down to i6|^° below zero, so that I
did not wonder at the Tibetans wanting to go home to their
own tents, especially as they wore no breeches.
Next day the little camel had to be killed. The strongest
animals of all the caravan except the dogs were our two
surviving sheep, Vanka, and. one from Abdal. The Mussul-
A Difficult Bit beside the Tso-ngomho.
mans would rather have perished of hunger than have
killed these. After marching a few days further in the
teeth of a killing wind, we reached a point where we were
only 240 miles from Leh. This town I was anxious to reach
at all costs before Christmas Eve, so that I might telegraph
home to Sweden.
On the night of the 20-2ist November we had i8^-°
below zero, and the wolves were troublesome ; and when
our dogs began to howl in concert with them the night was
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