QUARTERS AT DULDUL 



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fast, or rather lunch. Then sitting in that part of my 

 room which chd not let in wet, we whiled away the 

 afternoon with cards, and quite enjoyed ourselves, more 

 especially as the snow kept falling steadily most of the 

 time, and we could see every now and then regular 

 avalanches coming down, and sweeping the track we 

 should have had to keep had we gone on that afternoon. 



Houses occupied when halting at Duldul. 



On the morning of the 2nd we were off by about 5.20. 

 It was daylight soon after we set out, which was a good 

 thing, as Mrs. Renton was rather nervous going across a 

 nasty snow slope immediately above the river. An 

 avalanche had come down here the previous day, and the 

 leading men of our party had to make footsteps in the 

 newly-fallen snow. 



We reached Tashgam (6J miles on) about 1 1 a.m., the 

 snow becominof less and less as we advanced. Here we 



