66 RIFLE AXD SPEAR WITH THE RAJPOOTS. 



and he was quite dead when we reached him. It was then 

 too late to take his hide off, and the wind and snow blew 

 a perfect blizzard in our faces, so we were only too glad 

 to turn down the hill side towards the tents. It was pitch 

 dark and impossible to see a yard in front of us, so we 

 took a bee line for the valley, to hit off the path from the 

 pass as cpiickly as possible. The hill was steep, and even 

 the shikaris occasionally slipped up or tumbled over stones 

 hidden in the darkness, whilst I averaged a fall about every 

 hundred yards, and was very glad when we reached the 

 beaten track. Even then we had a long way to go, and 

 did not get back till long past nine o'clock." 



