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dysentery among the mountains ; and all the cases I 

 have been able to hear of there, were those of people 

 who had brought it up with them from the plains. I 

 was determined not to go back not to turn on my 

 journey, whatever I did ; and it occurred to me that 

 Mr Pagell, the Moravian missionary stationed at Pu, 

 near the Chinese border, and to whom I had a letter 

 of introduction from Mr Chapman, would be likely to 

 have the medicines which were all I required in order 

 to treat myself effectually. But Pii was several days' 

 journey off, more or less, according to the more or less 

 bad road which might be followed ; and the difficulty 

 was how to get there alive, so rapidly did the dysentery 

 develop itself, and so essential is complete repose in 

 order to deal with it under even the most favourable 

 circumstances. The morphia did not check it in the 

 least. Chlorodyne I was afraid to touch, owing to its 

 irritant quality ; and I notice that Mr Henry Stanley 

 found not the least use from treating himself with it 

 when suffering from dysentery in Africa, though it is 

 often very good for diarrhrea. 



The next day's journey, from Lippe to Siignam, 

 would have been no joke even for an Alpine Clubs- 

 man. It is usually made in two days' journey ; but 

 by sending forward in advance, and having coolies 

 from Labrang and Kanam ready for us half-way, we 

 managed to accomplish it in one day of twelve hours' 

 almost continuous work. The path went over the 

 Euhang or Eoonang Pass, which is 14,354 feet high ; 



