PART II 



SPORT IN CHANG-CHEN-MO, TIBET 



CHAPTER IX 



THE rROVINCE OF LADAKH, AND THE WAY THITHER 



The happy hunting ground of the Englishman— How he takes his sport- 

 General description of the country— Start from Lahore— Road as far as 

 Sultanpur— The transport difficulty- My travelling kit— Details of 

 arrangements— Chamurti, my Tibetan pony— Fifteen coolie-loads for a 

 six months' trip— The Kulu valley— Englishmen settled there— Flying- 

 foxes— Destruction caused by them— Game in Kulu almost entirely 

 destroyed— A sporting tour round the Kulu valley— The Ralah bunga- 

 low—Crossing the Rotang— Native servants— Chamurti's pranks— My 

 spirits rise with the elevation— Koksar bungalow— Reach Kailang. 



Ladakh has been the happy hunting ground of the English- 

 man for nearly half a century. From the time when Gerard 

 and Cunningham first explored its virgin valleys to the 

 present day, our fellow-countrymen have year after year 

 sought the various routes to those high table-lands. They 

 have searched its remotest corners in pursuit of the large 

 game of the country, and have shot them at elevations 

 which far exceed that of the monarch of European 

 mountains. To obtain six months' release from his duties 

 for a sporting tour in Ladakh is the summit of the big- 

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