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as to render them more convenient for the Nestorian porters, who were to bear them after me through the snow into the Tyari country, as the roads were still impassable for beasts of burden. Each of the party provided himself with a pair of woollen sandals, called zergool by the Nestorians, and a hooked stick, which I afterwards found of great service in crossing the snows, and in ascending and descending the rugged precipices of the remarkable country upon which we were about to enter.
