36 SUNRISE. 



ground, which may or may not be more or less clad with 

 forest. 



As the terms lower or outer, middle, and higher or upper, are 

 so frequently used in these pages to distinguish the various 

 mountain-ranges of the great Himalayan chain, when de- 

 scribing the haunts of game, I may mention that the first 

 apply to those rising directly from the plains or from the 

 Terai; the second, to those more in the interior of the moun- 

 tains ; and the third to the spurs of the snowy range, and the 

 precipitous, either open or forest-clad, slopes immediately 

 below it. The "snowy range" needs no definition. But to 

 revert to our pursuit of the game little gooral. 



I had seemingly been but a very short time asleep when 

 my slumbers were rudely disturbed, and I was informed that 

 Baloo Mar was waiting to accompany me up the hill. After 

 the usual cup of tea and a biscuit, we were soon climbing 

 the steep ascent, where our way led up through forest of oak 

 and rhododendron, or over open grassy slopes which were 

 white and crisp with frost. As we neared the summit, just 

 before sunrise, I could not resist the temptation, or perhaps, 

 from having "bellows to mend," I should call it the in- 

 clination, to sit down and cast a look over the succession of 

 mountain-ridges and deep trough-like valleys stretching away 

 far and wide between us and the mighty frozen barriers of 

 the snowy range. Some of the highest pinnacles had already 

 begun to flush up with that exquisitely beautiful but utterly 

 indescribable tint of delicate rose assumed by snowy summits 

 when touched by the first gleam of morning. Gradually the 

 ruddy glow spread from peak to peak, and grew brighter and 

 more yellow, until the whole jagged line became suffused 

 with golden light as the sun rose over it in dazzling glory 

 and threw its slanting beams across the profound misty 

 depths of the intervening hollows. 



The bear-slayer being of a decidedly practical turn of 

 mind, and also blessed with a first-rate pair of " bellows," 

 did not seem to appreciate these charms of nature, but kept 



