Scarcity of Poll. 



Taghdumbash Pamir now holds but few poli ; nevertheless, I 

 determined to stay on until the end of the month, and then 

 move across the Hi Su Pass and, if possible, down the Yarkand 

 River to Yarkand. 



On the 19th I spent the morning in camp, and sent out Arzii 

 and Palang to look for poli, as I had a bad headache caused by 

 being shut up in a stuffy, improvised darkroom the previous 

 night developing a batch of plates. Arzu came in some three 

 hours later and reported a herd on the stony slopes above 



CAMPED ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD. 



the left bank of the stream towards the head of the nullah. 

 He had left Palang to watch them, and when I arrived the poli, 

 of whom there were only four, were still in evidence. I then 

 commenced the stalk by making a detour to the east, and, when 

 high up on their level, crept along under cover of some rough 

 depressions in the rock and shale. Unfortunately the wind, 

 which from the beginning had been bad, spoilt the stalk, and 



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