A SUMMER IN HIGH ASIA. 



made a successful stalk, and arrived within fifty yards of 

 them, but to my disgust there was nothing carrying horns 

 of even thirty inches, so we showed ourselves, and watched 

 them gallop away across the ridge in front towards the 

 Indus Valley. Almost immediately afterwards we saw 

 another wolf, that had apparently come from the opposite 

 direction, slinking away. This particular flock of nyan 

 seemed to be having a rather bad time of it. It was now 

 5 P.M., and we had more than ten miles to go to get back 

 to camp, where we arrived at 7.30 P.M., all cf us pretty 

 well done up." 



The next day was spent in an ineffectual attempt 

 to get a shot at the Puttatuktuk goa. On the 

 morrow (August loth) we followed the road south- 

 wards along the lake, and then turned to the east 

 up the Polakonka Pass, as I had heard of a flock 

 of nyan there, out of which one had been shot a 

 short time previously. The road was easy, rising 

 gradually between snow-covered hills till the top is 

 reached, 16,300 feet above the sea-level; here we 

 camped, just under the summit, on some good turf 

 by the side of a stream. The following day we 

 started up the range to the south in search of nyan, 

 as it was here that I had heard that there were 

 some good ones. A fairly easy slope took us up to 

 the snow-line, which was, I suppose, at that time 

 at about 18,000 feet, and here we stopped for some 

 time to prospect. Seeing nothing, we began to 

 work westwards along the ridge. Soon afterwards 

 Salia was in such pain from mountain sickness and 



neuralgia in the head that I sent him back to camp. 



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