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CHAPTER VI. 



JOURNEY TO YARKAND. 



A CHANGE OF LATITUDE FISHING A DAY WITH YOUNGHUS- 



BAND EN ROUTE FOR YARKAND TAGHERMA PEAK SUF- 

 FERINGS OF THE PONIES RUFUS SUCCUMBS AN AWK- 

 WARD GORGE ACROSS THE TORAK TO THE CHARLUNG 



VALLEY CLIMBING A PRECIPICE THE KARA AND THE 



KIZIL DAWAN AN ICY ROAD MIDNIGHT BREAKFAST A 



LONG TRAMP THE FORT AT LAST. 



IT being now the middle of October and the cold 

 rapidly becoming greater, we felt it was time to 

 move to a lower region, so determined to have a 

 try for the boghe, or maral stag, on the banks of 

 the Zarafshan beyond Yarkand. 



The streams that we had forded a few days 

 previously were already frozen so hard that the 

 ponies could walk on the ice ; and Barat said that 

 the passes we had to cross beyond Tashkurgan 

 would very shortly be snowed up, and travelling 

 consequently very unpleasant. 



