Crossword-Solution: KHUD 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

What kind o’ country, Beetle? Well, _I_’m no word-painter, thank goodness, but _you_ might call it a hellish country! When we weren’t up to our necks in snow, we were rolling down the khud.

Then, in the night _and_ a howling snow-storm, he’d dropped over the edge of the khud, made his way down to the bottom of the gorge, forded the nullah, which was half frozen, climbed up on the other side along a track he’d discovered, and come out on the right flank of the Khye-Kheens.

Pines, ilex, and deodars clung miraculously to a hillside of massive rock, that jutted above him at intervals--threatening, immense; and often, on the _khud_ side, dropped abruptly into nothingness.

Then they carried the body out of the compound, across the main highway, beyond the parallel bridle-road, and let it slide softly down into the little _khud_ beyond, deeper and deeper each year from erosion.

The two bodies of elephants were plunging down the opposite sides of a deep khud and would meet in the broad bottom.