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UP THE RIVER.
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morning, while I was yet asleep, and gone up for three or four miles, and seen that it was quite impossible to go farther. I had long ago discovered that he was a great liar, so I was bent on going up myself: in brief, I did so: it was not impossible, it was quite easy travelling; and, after five or six miles, I saw a saddle at the end of it, which, though covered deep in snow, was not glaciered, and which did verily appear to me to be part of the main range itself. No words of mine can convey any notion of my feelings. My blood felt all on fire with hope and elation; but, on looking round for Chowbok, who was behind me, I saw, to my surprise and anger, that he had turned back, and was going down the valley as hard as he could. He had left me.

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