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236 ADVENTURES IN TIBET.
animal, this veteran of Kashgar, witli liis wild glistening
coal-black eyes, the whites of which used to show pro-
minently whenever he was in a bad temper.
We rested a day at the Lake of Ghaz-nor, and from
there^I sent on Tokta Akhun on horseback to find out a
suitable pass by which we might cross the Akato-tagh.
None of my men had ever been there before, but they knew
Making a Road over the First Pass.
that that range is considered to be excessively difficult to
cross. My scout returned late in the evening, and reported
that he had found a pass which we could use, after levelling
the extreme summit with spades.
On the 17th December, after over 53° of frost during the
preceding night, we once more entered the mountains by a
narrow winding ravine. These mountains are extremely
fantastic and peculiar in their forrnation. They consist
entirely of soft argillaceous matter, seamed by an endless
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