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228 ADVENTURES IN TIBET.
and after that scrambling on foot over the broken rocks
which had tumbled down the mountain-sides. Higher and
higher they were led by the wild sheep, until all at once
Togdasin collapsed, complaining of terrible pain in his
heart and in his head. Cherdon then went down for the
horses ; but as the sick man was unable to sit upright in his
saddle, thev were compelled to spend the night where they
The Cossacks Cherdon and Shagdur.
were. Togdasin begged his comrade to leave him. He
would certainly die an\^vay, and it made Httle difference
where it happened. Several times during the night Cherdon
shook the sick man, lest he should freeze to death. When
daylight came they dragged themselves down to the camp.
Togdasin’s condition was very pitiable ; his mind wan-
dered. This was another man whom I had met up in the
mountains, and it seemed not unHkelv that his fate would
be the same as Aldat’s. However, this time the case was
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