192 THE FOREST AND THE FIELD. 



Crossing the Ganges, we made our way along 

 the banks of the Goomtee Gadh, and for three 

 days directed our course up the Neila Valley, a 

 delightful spot called by the Puharees Pool-ke- 

 daree — the Road of Flowers ; and en route we had 

 some very fair burrul shooting. Crossing the Neila 

 Pass, an altitude of 16,000 feet, which somewhat 

 tried our powers as mountaineers, we entered the 

 head of the Buspa Valley, and following the down- 

 stream course of the river of that name, in three 

 days arrived at Chetkoul, the first village on the 

 Koonawaur side, where we halted a day, as our 

 people and the coolies were somewhat knocked 

 up with seven days' continuous marching and the 

 difficulties of the way. 



Our next stages were to Raugchum, and Sangla, 

 and from thence, over the Barung Pass, an ele- 

 vation of 16,300 feet above the sea, into the Val- 

 ley of the Sutlej. Crossing this wide, rapid, and 

 muddy-looking river by a very precarious rope sus- 

 pension-bridge, at Poaree, a few miles from Chinee, 

 three more marches brought us to the Askrung 

 Valley, where we halted for five days, and had 



