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which had been washed, and which my 

 cooHe had taken into his head to stow away 

 in my bag, were hard frozen. 



May 26th. — A fine cold morning, and we 

 started early to accomplish the five miles to 

 the source of the mighty river. The opposite 

 bank being the best for burrell, we were in 

 great hopes that we might find suflficient snow 

 left to enable us to cross the river ; but the 

 snow that at times bridges over the stream 

 was gone. The walking was bad, for in all 

 the small tributary streams were stones and 

 rocks incrusted with ice, which made them 

 very difficult to cross. On the opposite side 

 we saw immense flocks of burrell, but there 

 was no getting at them. 



At last the great glacier of the Ganges was 

 reached, and never can I forget my first im- 

 pressions when I beheld it before me in all 

 its savage grandeur. The glacier, thickly 

 studded with enormous loose rocks and 

 earth, is about a mile in width, and ex- 

 tends upwards many miles, towards an 

 immense mountain, covered with perpetual 



