1 * 410 LALA-BEG-GHARRI.
2 also formed.in it, and all the spare tents and
3 unnecessary baggage were sent there. On the
4 morning of the 2nd we resumed our march;
5 Hillersdon, who, poor fellow, had been dan-
6 gerously ill with fever some days before we
7 quitted Koulsir, and myself, being conveyed in
8 doolies; and it was with no inconsiderable de-
9 light we found ourselves jostling in the narrow
10 pass with camels, horses, donkeys, mules, bul-
11 locks, men, and women, bag and baggage, as
12 all bespoke a removal from the dreadful hotbed
13 into which we had been plunged so long. In
14 a couple of hours we reached Sir-i-chusma, or
15 the Fountain’s-head, where our tents ‘were
16 pitched beneath the shade of a few straggling
17 trees that afforded a slight relief from the sun.
18 I at first felt better for the excitement, but as
19 the afternoon drew on, I again suffered from
20 fever. On the 3rd we moved to Lala-beg-
21 gharri, a village of some size, situated in a
22 more open part of the pass than we had yet
23 seen, and indeed almost deserving the appella-
24 tion ef valley. Two tanks are in its neigh-
25 bourhood, from whence the inhabitants obtain