Kevima indicated one spot in the southern range of remarkable interest, associated with an incident which forms an epoch in the records of Martial geography.

A sloping plateau, some 19,000 feet above the sea-level, is defined with remarkable clearness in the direction from which we viewed it.

The forests appeared to hide, though they do not of course actually approach, its lower edge.

On one side and to the rear it is shut in by precipices so abrupt that the snow fails to cling to them, while on the remaining side it is separated by a deep, wide cleft from the western portion of the range.

Here for centuries were visible the relics of an exploring party, which reached this plateau and never returned.