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started by easy stages on our return to Derallee. 

 Here we halted a couple of days, and leaving our 

 heavier baggage, made an expedition in light 

 marching order over the mountains to Jumnautrie, 

 the source of the Jumna, putting up at Kursali on 

 the Onta Gadh, the most elevated village in the 

 Valley of the Jumna. The great natural pheno- 

 mena of the place are the hot springs that issue 

 bubbling from rocks only a few yards away from 

 wastes of eternal snow. Having taken a sketch of 

 the source, in which the four gigantic peaks of the 

 Bunderpouch (that exceed twenty thousand feet in 

 height) formed a most conspicuous back-ground, 

 we returned to Derallee, where we found a dozen 

 kiltas of supplies had arrived for us from Fred's 

 factotum at Mussoorie. 



As the season was now sufficiently far advanced 

 for us to attempt the Passes, we determined to make 

 a forward movement, so as to get into Thibet and 

 Cashmere before the best ground had been hunted 

 over and the game disturbed ; a great desideratum 

 in a country annually overrun by the first sports- 

 men the world can produce, a class of men of Anglo- 



