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hold of my imagination ; they had a similar effect on my 

 companions, who said it was a " bad " place, which should 

 be passed by as quickly as possible, and Paljour's steps 

 were hasty as he led the way across. We went up the 

 valley till it divided into two narrow ravines. The 

 smaller seemed to be a short side nala, down which flowed 

 a stream. The other, no doubt the commencement of the 

 main Gograng valley, could be viewed for some distance ; 

 it was choked with a serpentine glacier. We could see 

 nothing beyond but a steep, stony mountain ridge streaked 

 with snow, evidently the summit of the valley, and the 

 dividing line. After Pangta the small higher valleys 

 have no separate names ; the whole of the upper portion 

 is called Phu-Gograng, or " Head of Gograng." After 

 passing the glacier with the muddy fountain, the hillsides 

 become very stony and abrupt. We reached our farthest 

 point, but found no sight whatever of game ; there was no 

 animal in the valley larger than a marmot. No doubt my 

 predecessor's two months of wild shooting had frightened 

 every animal away, for the rest of the season at anyrate. 



The official map of Chang-chen-mo, it may be observed, 

 and probably that of the whole of this part of Ladakh, 

 perpetuates many serious mistakes. 



We began our return from the head of the valley at 

 noon, and found the tracks of the four nyan which 

 had fled across in this direction when the big ram was 

 shot ; we followed them up the hillside in the Pangta 

 valley, and found the beds where they had slept, but could 

 not discover the animals themselves. They had had a good 

 scare, and must have been lurking somewhere near the 

 sky-line — a very unusual thing for these large animals. 

 I was not very keen about them ; none of the four had a 

 good head ; I had secured the best. 



The next day I returned to Madmar camp, gave up the 

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