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climbing up and down, and we had been delayed so 

 long at Tak, that the distance we had covered since 

 dawn only measures on the map some 18 miles. 



About half an hour after we got in the shikari 

 arrived with the coolies, and Chand presently turned up 

 with a goatherd he had found on the hillside, each carry- 

 ing an armful of wood obtained from the latter's hut. 

 The drizzle continued, but we had now got wood and 

 water, and other things troubled us little. The goatherd 

 made a fire near the place I had swept clean, and while 

 he kept up a blaze, the shikari and I made my bed by 

 its light. The waterproof sheet was put over, not under- 

 neath on this occasion, and I quickly undressed and got 

 into bed, piling my clothes up under my pillow to keep 

 them dry. By this time Chand had lighted another fire, 

 and very soon the shikari brought me my dinner of soup 

 (made during the previous night and brought on in a 

 bottle, with a rag stuck in the mouth to prevent loss), 

 half a grilled fowl, one potato, one onion, chupatties, 

 and jam, which I ate by the light of the fire, thankful 

 that the drizzle had not yet turned to rain. I had put 

 the head of my bedding against a tree, and after dinner 

 the fire died down, and I leant up against the tree in bed 

 wrapped up in my cape, and listened to the drip from the 

 leaves on to my waterproof sheet, and the muffled roar of 

 the snow-fed Indus that came up from the dark valley 

 below. After half an hour or so of this I lay down, and 

 pulling the waterproof sheet well over my head, was 

 quickly fast asleep. 



The morning of the nth dawned dull and cloudy, but 

 without rain, as I sat on a stone having my tea and eggs, 



