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would have been deemed an affront ; and to insist on taking 

 our escort on without food would have caused discontent, 

 if not mutiny. We made a virtue of necessity, and, while 

 awaiting the repast, carried on a semblance of broken con- 

 versation, in which the ready wit of Ambak, our ever 

 active attendant, supplied, it is likely, the chief mateiials. 

 The name of the village, even more difiBcult to seize than 

 usual, was noted by Hooker as Adjersiman. It stands, 

 by our observations, at 5,535 feet (1,687 m.) above the 

 sea level. 



An hour — a whole precious hour — was consumed be- 

 fore the meal was over, and we were again on our way. 

 Above the village the bed of the valley rises very steeply, 

 the central part being filled with a vast mound of huge 

 boulders, which on further examination proved to be the 

 undoubted remains of the terminal moraine of the glacier 

 which once filled the head of the valley. The principal 

 mass of course marked the limit of the glacier during a 

 prolonged period ; but there were traces of two parallel 

 moraines of smaller size, of which the outer marked the 

 limit of its maximum extension. The blocks of porphyry 

 and other metamorphic rocks were mostly of great di- 

 mensions. 



The track was carried in zigzags up the face of the 

 rocky slope, keeping towards the top close to the edge of 

 the moraine ; and on reaching the summit of the barrier 

 disclosed to us for the first time a full view of the head of 

 our valley. A few yards below us was a small miserable- 

 looking village called Arround, the highest in this district. 

 This stands at the meeting of £wo short and rather broad 

 glens, each enclosed by the. rugged masses of the central 

 range of the Great Atlas. The shorter of the two, which 

 opened on our left in a SE. or ESE. direction, does not 

 apparently reach the main watershed, and a pass from its 

 head would in all probability lead to one of the tribu- 

 tary branches of the Ourika valley. The other glen that 

 opened light in front of us, somewhat W. of due S., was 



