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warm clothing suitable for the arctic climate we 
might expect soon to experience. I occupied myself 
in training my collectors. 
The Yarkand envoy, whom we had left at La- 
hore, was to have overtaken us at Le, hut as nothing 
had been heard of his movements since we left 
Jamu, and we could not depend on him following 
us up within a reasonable time, it was necessary to 
wait until he was fairly started. 
We were here joined by Mir Akbar Ali Khan 
Bahadur, C.S.I., who had distinguished himself in 
the Abyssinian campaign. He came with us as 
native secretary to Mr. Forsyth, and as time was 
pressing, and no tidings of the envoy's progress 
reached us, Mr. Forsyth sent his secretary, the Mir 
Sahib, to hasten Mirza Shadi's movements. During 
our halt at Srmagar I met Mr. Hay ward, who was 
on the point of starting for the Pamir via Yasin, 
where he was barbarously murdered a few weeks later. 
I had, as I have said, provided myself with the neces- 
sary instruments for making a route map and taking 
latitudes in the event of Mr. Shaw not joining us at 
Le, and Mr. Hay ward most kindly gave me the 
benefit of his great experience in this kind of work. 
Nigiit after night we lay out on the grass until the 
small hours of the morning, taking the latitude from 
different stars, and this practice I continued every 
night until we arrived at Le, where Mr. Shaw joined 
us, when I resigned the geographical work into his 
hands, as he had come prepared to undertake it. 
Hay ward was the most indefatigable geographer I 
ever met. His zeal for exploring was unbounded, 
and he was so intensely interested in the work in 
