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soon covered again with their wintry mantle. Yolldash, 
who was guarding the entrance of the tent, howled dis- 
mally out in the cold. The bad weather continued the 
whole of the next day, August ist, though mostly in the 
shape of rain, so that the snow quickly disappeared ; but 
it was a day lost, and there was nothing for it but to stick 
to the tent and work out my last sketch-maps. 
August 2nd was devoted to the Kamper - kishlak 
glaciers. The smaller of these ended at a considerable 
altitude, and had piled up in front of itself an enormous 
coloured with all the tints of the rainbow. One of the 
small terminal moraines seemed to indicate that it had 
advanced since our last visit in April. 
In the evening the sides of the mountain were lashed by 
a violent hailstorm, which pelted the roof of the yurt, and 
compelled us to shut the smoke-vent and put out the 
fire. The hailstones were about a quarter of an inch 
in diameter, and as they were followed by snow, which 
fell in big, close flakes, the slopes and the moraines were 
THE GLACIER STREAM OF THE YAM-BULAK GLACIER, LOOKING EAST 
