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kind enough to send me a most welcome parcel of papers. 

 He also volunteered the information that he had left an 

 antelope at Kiam with a fine pair of antlers ; and he 

 advised me to go after it — the buck had eluded him. 

 This must have been the animal I bagged the same 

 evening : he had a fine pair of horns. As soon as we 

 reached Kiam, Paljour started on the game-path at once ; 

 he saw two antelope up the valley, and we went for a stalk 

 in the evening. We got within two hundred yards, and I 

 had a steady shot with the Winchester off Paljour's back. 

 The buck was hit a little too far back in the small ribs, 

 and gave us a long chase ; I hit him twice again before he 

 could be brought to bay. I remained two days at Kiam, 

 resting, making up cartridges, and preparing for a hunt in 

 the Gograng valley. Kiam is well situated for a main 

 camp whence to make excursions into the various valleys 

 where game is found. There is a good deal of grass along 

 the river, and the baggage animals can get grazing. 



The principal valley of Chaug-chen-mo runs directly east 

 and west, and the length of the river, which runs along 

 it from near the Lanak-la in the north-west to its 

 junction with the Shyok, is, perhaps, seventy-five miles. 

 The level does not extend more than four miles in its 

 broadest part, and its total breadth, from crest to crest of 

 the highest enclosing ranges, north and south, is about 

 thirty miles. From Pamzal to the mouth of the river, a 

 distance of about thirty miles, it is said to run very 

 rapidly in a narrow rocky channel. This lower portion of 

 the valley has been rarely visited, and no game is to be 

 found there. The part which will most interest sportsmen 

 is from Pamzal to the eastern border of the valley — a 

 distance, say, of forty-five miles. The principal valleys 

 which drain into the Chang-chen-mo (great river), and 

 where all the varieties of game are found, I give below. 



