Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE ADVANCE TO PHARI JONG Next day, the 18th, General Macdonald with the force commenced the march to Phari Jong, where we were told we might expect a fight. It is thirty-two miles from Chumbi, and stands about the same height as the Jelap La, without a tree within fifteen miles of it. We camped at Ling- mathang, and as I was advance guard with my fifty Mounted Infantry, I had the opportunity of shooting any game we met on the road, and was fortunate in securing ten blood pheasants, very handsome birds, and a brace of duck. On the 19th we got as far as Dotha, about a mile above the wood line. Here we made our first acquaintance with real Tibetan wind and cold. Everybody who has been at this camp will agree that it was one of the worst we were in. It was about one thousand yards long and three hundred yards broad, with precipitous mountains at each side running up to 19,000 feet, on which large herds of burrhel were seen, but none bagged. The Amu Chu flows down the centre. The only object of FROZEN WATERFALL AT DOTHA, 80 FEF.T HIGH. INHOSPITABLE DOTHA 23 interest at Dotha is the beautiful frozen waterfall, quite eighty feet high. It does not add to the warmth of the place. I believe this waterfall was more photographed than anything in Tibet. The road here from Lingmathang surpassed even the descent from the Jelap La in its then bad condition. The chief cause of this was that the Amu Chu was frozen with ice four or five feet thick. The melted snow-water which came down in the evening, instead of flowing down the stream, was forced by the ice to find a lower level along the road, which was therefore eaten away till nothing was left of it except enormous boulders. The force had to march up through this snow-water the whole day, till very late in the e...