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opposite hillside from a rocky prominence on the 

 glacier, we saw a herd with one fair male, but the stalk 

 proved a failure, as we were seen before we were at all 

 in range, and the animals went off up the hill. 



A wearisome trudge back across the glacier brought 

 us by moonlight to our camp, prettily situated in a little 

 grassy glen at the edge of a pine wood, with a clear 

 stream rippling merrily along. A low hill covered with 

 birch-trees separated us from the glacier. My tent was 

 pitched beside the stream, in a sort of open glade clothed 

 with short grass, which made a soft green carpet under 

 my feet. Looking north, the resinous-scented pines stood 

 on my right and the feathery birches on my left ; behind 

 me was the pleasant sound of the water, and in front a 

 magnificent view of the five great snow-clad peaks, rising 

 cold and white in the moonlight. Altogether, I thought 

 this was one of the most delightfully situated of the many 

 delightful camping grounds I occupied in Baltistan. 



On the morning of the 19th we followed the ridge 

 overhanging the glacier almost to its end, and then 

 crossed to the other side. The Jutyal glacier is of 

 considerable dimensions. It is some miles long, and its 

 upper end lies in a semicircular opening in the mountains, 

 which is certainly more than two miles wide. At each 

 side is a lateral moraine of varying height formed of sand, 

 gravel, and boulders, and between these two banks the 

 great ice -river makes its way. The surface of the ice 

 is almost everywhere covered, as noted above, with gravel 

 and broken rocks. In places these form large mounds, 

 and no ice is anywhere visible. In others the layer thins 

 out till the dark ice crops up to the surface. Pools of 



