The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume IX, No. 4 [‎211r] (92/172)

THE SOUTHERN BORDERLANDS OF AFGHANISTAN.
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of their camels for food, but had to live on leaves and roots for five days
before they found us again.
The heat had by this time become very severe. The thermometer used
to record up to 116° Fahr. inside our tents, and our solar radiation ther
mometer used to register outside on cloudless days a sun-heat of 205° Fahr.
by nine o’clock in the morning. It was not made to register higher
than that, or we might have obtained still higher records. As it was,
it used to register in places a temperature in the sun equal to that of
boiling water at the same place. At any rate, we found it quite hot
enough for ordinary comfort, and the heat, combined with a strong hot
wind and sand-storm, often made rest during the daytime impossible.
ROBAT, WITH THE MABITE DOKH AND MOUNT.
To those travellers who are tired of the cold of the arctic regions or
the damp swamps of Africa, I can thoroughly recommend the genial
dry warmth of summer in these deserts as a pleasing change. Owing
to the heat, we always had, of course, to make our marches at night.
AVe used to strike camp about sunset, and as a general rule mai'ch on by
moonlight or starlight all night, arriving at our next halting-place
before light in the early morning. At other times, should a sand-storm
get up, or the night be an exceptionally dark one, we used to have to
come to a stop and lie down wherever we happened to be, until eithei
the moon rose or the day broke, and we could see sufficient!) to pick
our way. On those occasions we used sometimes to be overtaken by
the light and heat of the following day, and then the want of water
used to be cruelly felt. On one occasion I remember we got, on a
dark night, into a labyrinth of deep ravines, and, after stumbling about