From this we descended to the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020876">Yalloong</placeName> valley intending to go up it <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020876">Yalloong</placeName> village & thence cross <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the great Southern Spur of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />(called <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020683">Singalelah</placeName>) into <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312">Sikkim</placeName>. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />To our distress for we had but one <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#mMM" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700">day’s more food <hi rendition="#u" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700">the <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020876">village</placeName></hi> was <lb />found <hi rendition="#u" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700">deeply</hi> buried <hi rendition="#u" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700">in Snow</hi></hi> & the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />inhabitants <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">had</add> fled to the nearest <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />villages in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988">Nepal</placeName>. To cross <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020683">Singalelah</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from hence, where it could not be <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />less than <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="18000" unit="foot">18000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> was impossible & we <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hence<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>,</orig> <reg /> </choice> had no choice but to follow<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="8v" />the valley down <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>S.W.</abbr> <expan>South West</expan> </choice> & seek the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />first villages – which we reached <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />on the thir<subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow"><gap reason="covered" quantity="2" unit="chars" /></del> <add place="across">d</add> </subst> day in great distress.