fire ; and above these carefully made little embrasures
there was head cover for at least another twelve inches.
Between each man’s recess the Tibetans had built up a
partition wall of heavy slabs of stone, so that the damage
caused by direct shell fire was reduced to a minimum,
and loss by enfilading shrapnel almost entirely avoided.
The Karo la— 16,600 ft. above the sea. The glacier descends to the road immediately
outside this picture to the left.
At this time the wall was about eight hundred
yards lon g ; the enemy, as you may see from the
accompanying plan, had thrown forward sangars, one or
more on either side, which at once prevented any chance
of an easy flanking movement, or, indeed, of our
bringing forward without danger either the maxims
or the main body of the force; and secure in this
