Travels in the Atlas and southern MoroccoA narrative of exploration . m ** * ^ W> - ?<. /. vk THE ASCENT OE THE TJZI LIKUMPT. 461 ?we feared that they would drive us back, as not in-frequently hapi^ens to the tax-collectors. We did not give them time to think too much,however, but hurried on at a break-neck speed forthe top of the valley. At length, five hours fromAsni, we reached our goal for the time being, at avillage called Tashdirt, 7560 feet above the level ofthe sea. Here we halted to hold a council of deemed it wise not to wait till the morrow tomake the ascent of the Tizi
Travels in the Atlas and southern MoroccoA narrative of exploration . m ** * ^ W> - ?<. /. vk THE ASCENT OE THE TJZI LIKUMPT. 461 ?we feared that they would drive us back, as not in-frequently hapi^ens to the tax-collectors. We did not give them time to think too much,however, but hurried on at a break-neck speed forthe top of the valley. At length, five hours fromAsni, we reached our goal for the time being, at avillage called Tashdirt, 7560 feet above the level ofthe sea. Here we halted to hold a council of deemed it wise not to wait till the morrow tomake the ascent of the Tizi, but to strike while theiron was hot, and before the natives made up theirmind what course to take in regard to us. Taking only two men and our Asni guide, who hadshown himself a capital fellow, we pushed on at crossing the stream, we commenced the had not proceeded far before we were compelled todismount from our mules. For a time we held on totheir tails, but even that soon proved to be too muchlor them, and we had to rely upon our own unassistedefforts. We speedily
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