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minutes for the return journey. The mules were swum
across under Captain Moore’s charge, half a mile higher
up stream.
On the second day the force suffered the greatest
loss which overtook them throughout the entire expedition.
General Macdonald, remembering his Central
Native yak-skin boats on the Tsang-po. To the right is one of the Berthon rafts discarded
after the drowning of Major Bretherton from one of them.
African experiences, had provided rafts, supported at
either end by Berthon boats ; these carried ten men
and their kits at a time, but owing to the velocity
of the current, which caused a series of whirlpools,
gyrating in a curve from the corner of the bluff under
cover of which the ferry-boats came to rest, more freeboard
was here needed than in still water, and after the
