A SUMMER IN HIGH ASIA. 



accustomed to bad ground, as their hills are of a 

 different type to the granite crags of Baltistan. 

 The road eventually took us over a high plateau, 

 whence we had a fine view of the promised land 

 Ladakh, a sea of rolling mountains and snowy 

 peaks, ahead of us ; and we eventually descended 

 to Saspul, a village of some importance. En- 

 camped here I met P. and C., who had wintered 

 in Yarkand, and were bringing down several fine 

 heads of Ovis Polii and other Central Asian game. 

 They had tried to cross the Mustagh Pass from 

 the north, but had been deserted by their coolies, 

 and after severe hardships had reached Leh. We 

 spent a pleasant evening together they kindly 

 gave me dinner, and I was able to supply them 

 with some newspapers, &c. Amongst other 



curiosities they 

 were bringing 

 down was a 

 f o u r-h o rned 

 sheep, one of 

 the fat-tailed 

 sort, from the 

 Pamirs ; in 

 addition to its 

 ordinary ram's 

 horns, it had 



ON THE ROAD TO LEH. VILLAGE OF SASPUL. 



two horns 

 rather like those of an ibex, but straight and some 



twenty inches in length ; it was quite tame and 



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