202 THE FOOT OF THE PASS. 



snow, that our men did not like to face it ; 

 so we agreed to take a lower one, which 

 would bring us down upon Sangla. 



Traversing the forest, we killed two bears, 

 one black, and the other a magnificent 

 specimen from the snow; and in four days 

 arrived at the foot of the pass, reaching 

 our last halting-place in a snow-storm. 

 Campbell's leg had been scorched by the sun 

 some days ago, and had now become so 

 inflamed and painful, that he was unable to 

 walk, and had to be carried in a dandy.* 

 We had a habit of laying ourselves out to 

 dry after breakfast, and I having as usual 

 tucked up my trowsers, my friend Edward 

 imitated a bad example, but his legs were 

 not sun proof, as mine were, from constant 

 exposure. Next morning the snow was 

 deep, the tents frozen stiff, and the men 



* A dandy is made by tying a blanket tight by both ends to 

 a long pole. The individual to be carried, then shoves his legs 

 between the pole and the blanket, vfhich is pulled up behind to 

 support the back, and with his legs dangling down, away he goes 

 over all sorts of ground, at the rate of at least five miles an hour, 

 carried by four men, and accompanied by four others as a relief. 



