A SUMMER IN HIGH ASIA. 



frequently obtained. As far as I have been able 

 to observe personally, one is likely to meet with old 

 rams in company with the ewes all through the 

 year, as the males of this animal do not seem to 

 separate entirely from the females during the 

 summer months, as is the case with most mountain 

 game. I consider an old ram burhel as difficult to 

 bag as almost any of the Himalayan game that I 

 have shot, as, unless hit in some vital part, he will 

 go incredible distances, and a broken leg seems 

 hardly to affect him at all. I have seen a ram, so 

 badly wounded that he fell four times while still in 

 sight, go right away over a high range of hills for 

 some five miles before he lay down to die. But to 

 return to my sport in Gya. The shikaris whom I 

 sent out to prospect on the day of my arrival, 

 reported both nyan and napoo, and of course I went 

 after the former first, as I was assured that I could 

 get as many of the latter as I wished. The first 

 day I went up Tubbuh, and saw, on the peak of 

 a crag some 2,000 feet above me, a napoo gazing 

 down into the valley below ; but as there were here 

 many tracks of nyan, we did not go after him, but 

 turned up a side nalah. About mid-day, as we 

 were riding along the usual stony plain, we saw a 

 reddish-coloured animal which came bounding down 

 the slope on our left, and which, after going some 

 little distance, stopped and commenced to feed. 

 Salia said at first that he was a shapoo, but the 

 Ladakhi said, " No, a small nyan." 



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