camp
The Bureau's camp at the limit of measurement, two hundred paces below the saddle: three canvas tents on stone platforms, a theodolite under a tarpaulin, a line of survey stakes that ends at a stake with no number. Instruments carried past this line stop; notebooks lose their last entries; one surveyor came back without his memory of the afternoon. The camp is kept by the surveyor and a rota of Bureau clerks who are glad to go down. Custom: nothing is written above the last stake; the camp's la...
Located in The Last Pass.