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4IO ADVENTURES IN TIBET.
bad beginning by losing three of our horses. Two gave
up directly we left camp, and the third only succeeded in
getting over the first pass ; but then that day’s march
turned out to be one of the very worst we ever had.
During the night it had snowed, and in the morning it
turned to rain, and the rain came down in torrents. The
country looked as if it were the dumping-ground for the
street-mud of all the cities in the world. Every man was
A Camel Sinking in the Quagmire.
forced to walk, even at the risk of losing his boots in the
mire. Had we been a smaller company we should in-
faUibly have lost a large proportion of our camels, for they
kept falhng incessantly, and when they did so it was no
end of a business to get the beast up again. In the first
place it was hard work to find tolerably firm ground on
which to place the load, whilst we gave our attention to
the camel. Then we moved aside the mud with spades,
pulled the camel over on one side, and putting felts under
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