Of course they will walk away as far to the East as possible -- just to show that they were never among the Western States . You do not know the Hills ? ' He scratched with a twig on the earth . ` Look ! They should have come in by Srinagar or Abbottabad . Thatt is their short road -- down the river by Bunji and Astor . But they have made mischief in the West . So ' -- he drew a furrow from left to right -- ` they march and they march away East to Leh -LRB- ah ! it is cold there -RRB- , and down the Indus to Hanle -LRB- I know that road -RRB- , and then down , you see , to Bushahr and Chini valley . That is ascertained by process of elimination , and also by asking questions from people that I cure so well . Our friends have been a long time playing about and producing impressions . So they are well known from far off . You will see me catch them somewhere in Chini valley . Please keep your eye on the umbrella . ' It nodded like a wind-blown harebell down the valleys and round the mountain sides , and in due time the lama and Kim , who steered by compass , would overhaul it , vending ointments and powders at eventide . ` We came by such and such a way ! ' The lama would throw a careless finger backward at the ridges , and the umbrella would expend itself in compliments . They crossed a snowy pass in cold moonlight , when the lama , mildly chaffing Kim , went through up to his knees , like a Bactrian camel -- the snow-bred , shag-haired sort that came into the Kashmir Serai . They dipped across beds of light snow and snow-powdered shale , where they took refuge from a gale in a camp of Tibetans hurrying down tiny sheep , each laden with a bag of borax . They came out upon grassy shoulders still snow-speckled , and through forest , to grass anew .
For all their marchings , Kedarnath and Badrinath were not impressed ; and it was only after days of travel that XXXXX , uplifted upon some insignificant ten-thousand-foot hummock , could see that a shoulder-knot or horn of the two great lords had -- ever so slightly -- changed outline .
Abbottabad East Hanle Kim Leh Tibetans West harebell ointments right