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assistance arrived, and they followed us to Shahidulla. 
The Yarkand envoy and Kazi Mahomed Yakub were 
in the same plight as ourselves, and, leaving most of 
their baggage and their ladies behind, they started 
off to go by double marches to Shahidulla, whence they 
were to send us assistance. Tara Singh and his party, 
who had gone on before from Kashmir, now rejoined 
us. They had been to Shahidulla and had seen some 
Yarkand soldiers and Kirghiz, from whom they had 
learned that perfect peace reigned in Yarkand. 
There are many observations I regret much that I 
did not make whilst we were in this elevated region, 
and one of them is the change produced on the pulse, 
the respiration, and the temperature of the body. My 
travelling companions most kindly offered to submit 
to the torture of having their temperatures taken and 
pulses counted systematically, but I felt that I had 
already too many irons in the fire. The few detached 
observations I did make are not of much value, but 
they proved clearly that, in my own case at least, 
altitude had very little effect, as the following figures 
will show. I may mention that numerous observa- 
tions made on my companions gave similar results. 
Place. Date. Pulse. Respiration. Temperature 
under Tongue. 
80 ., 
,. 24 ., 
,. 98-2 
Sakte,* 12,900 feet, July 9, 3i p.m. 
90 
,. 25 .. 
. 98-3 
Top of Chang-la, 18,000 feet, July lOth, 
80 
,. 26 .. 
Lak Zung,+ 17,500 feet, July 24,7 a.m. 
75 . 
.. 24 ., 
.. 97-8 
On the morning of the 25th July we prepared for 
* After sitting quietly in my tent reading and writing for several hours, 
t After slowly dressing. 
