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their health. Unfortunately two of them, on entering the Lio-her 

 ranges, broke down completely ^ and a third had to leave off work 

 early in the season. The ground sketched was generally very elevated 

 and barren, the Surveyor's chief difficulties arising from the want of 

 provisions and firewood, and sometimes even of fresh water. The 

 plane table sketches required for the map of Little Tibet have been 

 completed, and lodged in the Head-Quarters Office at Dehra. A 

 glacier, about twenty miles in length, was discovered by Mr. Eyall at 

 the head of the Nubra Valley. Some large glaciers were also found 

 in the neighbourhood of the Nanga Parbat. 



I fully concur in the testimony which is borne by Captain Mont- 

 gomerie, to the great zeal with which these arduous Survey opera- 

 tions have been carried on by all the assistants under his orders. 

 The good fortune of success has hitherto attended all undertakings 

 executed under the superintendence of this officer. 



There is much reason to expect that, if the snows are not un- 

 usually heavy, and if most of the Surveyors keep in good health, the 

 remainder of the country to be surveyed in and around Kashmir and 

 Ladak, will be completed during the next field season. Captain 

 Montgomerie has made every effort to persuade the Maharajah of 

 Kashmir to allow one of our Surveyors to go to Gilgit, and has 

 obtained a half promise to this effect. Possibly the fear of being 

 called to account, should any harm happen to a European in his terri- 

 tories, causes the Maharajah to hesitate to sanction an undertaking 

 which might be somewhat perilous. He informed Captain Mont- 

 gomerie that, during the late winter, his troops in Gilgit had been 

 sleeping ; no exaeter information could be elicitedthan what is suggested 

 by this metaphor. If, as Captain Montgomerie thinks likely, the 

 sleep was that which knows no waking, the Sikh garrison of the 

 Maharajah must have been massacred by the hill tribes, in which case 

 there is little hope of our Surveyors being soon able to penetrate into 

 Gilgit. 



The Eastern Frontier Party, under the charge of Mr. C. Lane, 

 Chief Civil Assistant, has been employed, throughout the Field Season, 

 in Independent Tipperah. At the end of the preceding season this 

 triangulation had reached a point to the South of Cherra Poonjee, on 

 the confines of Tipperah, where the British Boundary retrogrades 

 Westward to a considerable distance, so that the triangulation would 



