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Numa, on the Indus, where it is fordable or ferryable, 

 according to the season, as we should there have to cross it 

 on our way to the Hanle country, where we intended to try 

 our luck after the goa (Tibetan gazelle). As my camp was 

 at an elevation of over 1*7,000 feet, calculated by boiling- 

 point thermometer, and was fearfully cold and windy, I was 

 not sorry to turn my steps downwards in the direction of 

 Numa, which we reached in two days: 



The Major had seen a good many big Oves Ammon on 

 the ground he had been over, but unfortunately had killed 

 none, so we decided that I should return there with him, as 

 he said there was plenty of room for two guns. I need not, 

 however, recapitulate all the vicissitudes and disappointments 

 experienced during the several days spent in endeavouring 

 to circumvent these most wary animals, without even the 

 satisfaction of getting a shot, so let us return to Nurna, arid 

 thence continue our wanderings. 



