seven o'clock at night
Many of them were too exhausted to attempt to cook food , and at once went to sleep round the fires . Early the next morning , the Pioneers and levies started to cross the pass . The Kashmir men brought up the guns into camp but , though the distance was short , the work took them the best part of the day . The march was not more than ten miles ; but Borradaile 's party , though they left Langar at daylight , did not reach Laspur till seven o'clock at night . The slope over the pass was a gradual one , and it was the depth of the snow , alone , that caused so much delay . The men suffered greatly from thirst , but refused to eat the snow , having a fixed belief that , if they did so , it would bring on violent illness . On arriving at the top of the pass , the Hunza levies skirmished ahead .