A SUMMER IN HIGH ASIA. 



camping here. He had been early in Balttstan, and 

 had obtained very good sport in a nalah called 

 Hushe, where, in spite of bad weather, he had 

 bagged several fine ibex. He said that he had 

 been succeeded in the valley by a friend of mine, 

 W., so I determined to make this nalah my goal, 

 as W. would probably be leaving just about the 

 time that I should arrive there. Salia thought that 

 I could not do better, but at the same time he told 

 me, as everybody else had done, that it was too late 

 in the season for me to expect any sport with the 

 ibex, as they would have gone so high, as the 

 snow melted, that it would be difficult to find them ; 

 in fact, the coolie-loads of ibex horns going down 

 to Srinagar that we met on the road, showed me 

 that most men were returning just as I was setting 

 out. However, I determined that to the Hushe 

 nalah I would go, and my hitherto undecided 

 wanderings had henceforward a definite objective. 



LADAKHI WOMAN 

 AND CHILD. 



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