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lying between some large stones on the Moraine where nobody 

 could see him, and the second day he slowly went down to our first 

 camp at the foot of the glacier. Unhappily our men with the 

 horses and yoobus had already left, and the poor man remained 

 three days without food in the wilderness, when he met some Mana 

 people, who brought him on. He was bad enough, and had his feet 

 injured by frost, but we think that he will entirely recover before 

 long. In the afternoon of the 20th the weather again became fine 

 and clear. We completed our survey of the Gamin Glaciers, and 

 made our preparations for the next day's march. At the camp we 

 had found some wood and fresh provisions which had been sent up 

 by Mani, whom we had left at the lowest station, and all our people 

 recovered again satisfactorily. The great Gamin Glacier, and all 

 the part of the country where we had now been, lies within the 

 boundaries of Thibet. To reach Badrinath we had still to cross a 

 high Glacier Pass. "We had heard of the existence of this Pass 

 (quite a different one from the regular Mana Pass) only a few days 

 before from a Mana coolie who was with us ; he said that formerly it 

 had once been passed with sheep, but that now it was quite deserted. 

 Neither he nor any other man of Mana had ever made the Pass, but 

 he knew about the direction in which it was likely to lie, and he 

 undertook to find the road and to lead the party. On the 21st 

 we went up along the "Western branch of the Ibi Gamin Glaciers 

 and slept on the highest Moraine. On the 22nd, with beautiful 

 clear weather, we proceeded further and after some detours and 

 mistakes, we happily reached the pass as early as 2 o'clock. It was 

 much higher and much more difficult than we or our people had 

 expected. It is no doubt one of the highest passes in the Hima- 

 layas, being 20,430 E. F. above the level of the sea. We were 

 extremely glad to have found a passage, since otherwise we should 

 have been obliged to make a long and tedious detour down the 

 whole of the glacier and round the Mana Ghat. Prom the top of 

 the pass we discovered a large glacier trending to the South-west, 

 and saw before us a considerable part of the range separating the 

 Mana from the Nelong valley. The Glacier was the Sursutti 

 Glacier ; we went down along it and at night encamped again on 

 the " Moraine," near a place where we found the first peaug. "We 



