XXVI Mysterious footprints--Brigand or spy?--Passes and tracks--Intense cold--No fuel--A high flat plateau--Fuel at last!--Two spies in disguise--What they took us for Pp. 154-157 XXVII Lama Chokden--A Tibetan guard--The sacred Kelas--Reverence of my men for the sacred Mountain--Trying hard to keep friends with the gods--_Obos_--Water flowing to us Pp. 158-161 XXVIII An extensive valley--Kiang, or wild horse--Their strange ways--The Gyanema fort--Apprehension at our appearance--A parley--"Cut off our heads!"--Revolt and murder contemplated--Hypocritica ways of Tibetan officials--Help summoned from everywhere--Preparing for war Pp. 162-166 XXIX Arrival of a high official--The Barca Tarjum--A tedious palaver--The Tarjum's anxiety--Permission to proceed--A traitor--Entreated to retrace our steps--Thirty armed horsemen--A pretty speech Pp. 167-173 XXX Spying our movements--Disguised sepoys--A gloomy look-out--Troublesome followers--Another march back--An amusing incident Pp. 174-177 XXXI An attempt that failed--A resolution--A smart Shoka lad--The plucky Chanden Sing proposes to accompany me--Mansing the leper becomes my servant's servant Pp. 178-181 XXXII "Devil's Camp"--A fierce snowstorm--Abandoning our tents--Dangers and perils in prospect--Collecting the men--One load too many!--Another man wanted and found--A propitious night--Good-bye to Wilson--The escape--Brigands Pp. 182-186 XXXIII S.E. wind--Hungry and half frozen--Lakes at 18,960 feet above sea-level--Cold food at high altitudes--Buried in snow--Mansing's sufferings--Fuel at last Pp. 187-191 XXXIV Dacoits--No nonsense allowed--A much-frequented region--A plateau--The Gyanema-Taklakot track--A dangerous spot--Soldiers waiting for us--Burying our baggage--Out of provisions--A fall into the Gakkon River--A bright idea--Nettles our only diet Pp. 192-197 XXXV All that remained of my men's provisions--The plan to enter the fort--Appearance of yaks--A band of brigands--Erecting fortifications--Changes in the temperature--Soldiers in search of us Pp. 198-201 XXXVI "Terror Camp"--Two more messengers leave camp--A tribe of Dogpas--A strange sahib--Our messengers return from Taklakot--The account and adventures of their mission--In great distress--Two fakirs who suffered through me--Five hundred rupees offered for my head--The Shokas want to abandon me--A plot--How it failed Pp. 202-206 XXXVII A Tibetan guard's encampment--Nattoo volunteers to be a guide--Treachery and punishment of the Shokas--All ways forward barred to me--Evading the soldiers by another perilous march at night--Mansing again lost--A marvellous phenomenon--Sufferings of my men--Severe cold Pp. 207-210