We had difficulty in securing food and a place to sleep.

The room in which we were expected to slumber was hung with an extensive wardrobe of female garments.

These we added to the blankets we carried with us, but suffered all night long from the penetrating cold.

The two indian boys, who accompanied us as guides and carriers, slept in the corridor outside our door and when day broke they were so cramped and numbed and stiff with cold, that they lighted matches and thrust their cold hands into the flames, before they could move their finger-joints.

We had planned to leave at five, but it was too cold to ride until the sun should be an hour high, so finally we left at seven.