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near the Pangi'ir-tso — Cloudy -weather — Another nyan hunt — Six 

 hours in a shallow trench — A trying ordeal — The nyan score this 

 time — A desperate rush — Sight the nyan again — A long shot — 

 Bag one — Return to camp — After nyan again — Nonplussed by 

 idiotic kiangs — The hunting ground — An excursion suggested 

 — Big heads are getting scarce — Causes of their disappearance — 

 Old rams are adepts at concealment — Return to Shiishal . . 175 



CHAPTER XIII 



SPORT IN CHAXG-CnEX-MO 



Paljour, the old shikari — Savap is "run in" — His iniquities — Leave 

 Shiishal — The Pangong lake — Its absent beauties — Reverend Mr. 

 Redslob — Dalgleish's murderer — Reverend Dr. Lansdell — Com- 

 missariat and transport for a month's trip — The "Great River" 

 — Kiam camp — Bag my first Tibetan antelope — Description of 

 the Chang-chen-mo country — Gograng camp — Madmar camp — 

 Explore the Chang-lung — Nyan at last — A fatiguing stalk — 

 Another tramp — Miss chanku (wolf) — Servants from Leh arrive 

 — Yakub's hard work comes to an end — A rare servant — A final 

 exploration — Curious glaciers in Gograng — A weird and oppres- 

 sive scene^Inaecurate mai)S — Return to Kiam — Correct name of 

 Gograng — A change in the weather for the worse . . . 194 



CHAPTER XIV 



DONG (wild yak) SHOOTIXCJ 



Start on the hunt — Shoot an antelope — The first dong track — 

 Paljour takes up the scent— A black spot in the distance — Re- 

 solved into a bull-yak — Seventy yards range — I miss the target, 

 four feet by six — The second shot tells — The bull slows down — 

 Circumvent him at last — A butcherly business — The usual 

 reaction — Piercing cold — The Tibetan gale — A snowstorm — 

 Exhaustion — Tea and blankets — No remedy — The frozen 

 dong — A splendid trophy — Bullets and their wounds — Hunting 

 twenty thousand feet above sea level — The temperature falls — 

 No water procurable — Yakub's excitement over the dong's head 

 and hide — Yakub a keen sportsman — How he hunts the 

 tailless Tibetan rat successfully — Weight of the dong's head — 

 Length of the horns — The hunt continued — Tibetan gi'ouse — 

 More \vild yak — A successful stalk — "500 bore bullets and their 

 effect on the dong — Shepherds and sheep — How the Maharajah 

 trades — The Champa robbers — Their depredations — Varying tem- 

 peratures — Three wild yak bagged in a week — A record perform- 

 ance — Give up the hunt — Weights and measurements of heads 

 and horns — Details of cost of expedition 211 



