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number of extra coolies was therefore fixed 

 by the number required to move our camp 

 and the supplies for our original party, as, 

 of course, in a place where no men live 

 coolies cannot be procured just when they 

 happen to be wanted, and our seven per- 

 manent coolies were already sufficiently 

 occupied. Eventually we left Metwan with 

 eight extra hands. Our meat marched with 

 us in the shape of a small flock of hill 

 sheep, as did also our milk, which was pro- 

 vided by four goats ; while our fowls sat on 

 the top of the loads and supplied us with 

 eggs. The proportion of four goats to one 

 man may seem excessive, but as they had 

 to pick what food they could from among 

 the snow they were very tb : n, and only pro- 

 duced a pint and a half ol milk between 

 them ; besides, cold is almost as detrimental 

 to the production of milk as starvation. 



It was a funny start the next day. First 

 went Lassoo, Muksooda, myself and the 

 lunch coolie, to prepare the road for the 

 load coolies in places where the hill track 



