INDEX. 





Pigs, wild, 40. 

 Pir Punchal range, 1 72. 

 Pithoragarh or Shore, 9. 

 Poisonous exhalations, 240. 

 Polyanthus, 273. 

 Ponds, hill, or "trags,"211. 

 Pony, usefulness of a, 244. 

 Poolas, thin rope of twisted rice- 

 straw, 102. 

 Porcupines, 135. 



Pork, an unsuccessful stalk for, 70. 

 Porters, female, 307. 

 Position, a precarious, 295. 

 Pottage, making, 250. 

 Prayer-cylinders, 230. 

 Precipice, shelling a, 171. 

 Predicament, awkward, 178. 

 Providence, tempting, 28. 

 Puddoo, 289. 



" Pulla " or low wall, 275. 

 "Pumped," 237. 

 Pythons, hunting, 138. 



Race for a shot, 190. 



Ram, a grand old, 315 after a 



wounded, 334 killing a, 342. 

 Rams, two, killed, 306. 

 Ramzan Meer, an old shikaree, 96. 

 Random shot, a, and its consequences, 



194. 



Rarefied air and its effects, 251. 

 Rats and mice, an invasion of, 222. 

 Ravens, a pair of big, 250. 

 Reddish-yellow hills, 241. 

 Reid, Colonel, joins, on a shooting 



expedition, 134. 

 Remorse, a twinge of, 210. 

 Rhododendron-bushes, 4, 68. 

 Roads, mountain, 4. 

 Rookshu, district of, 264 people, 



275. 



Roughing it on the hill, 122. 

 Ruins, ancient, on the Jhelum, 93. 

 Rutting season, the, 201. 

 Rutting stags, recklessness of, 211. 

 Rwing, camped at, 307. 



Sakchu, rapid stream of melted snow, 

 325. 



Salmon and mahseer fishing contrast- 

 ed, 21. 



Salt-lick, artificial, 48. 



Salt-licks, 88. 



Sambur or " jurrow," 23. 



Sand-grouse, 273. 



Sanga or wooden bridge, 303. 



Satroodra, river Sutlej, 320. 



Scene, beautiful, 168. 



Seraitota, 292. 



Sewaliks, fossil remains in the, 128 



game of the, 130 the ridge of 



the, 135. 



Shangus, village of, 96. 

 Shawl- weavers, 127. 

 Sheep, wild, 3. 

 Shikaree, the native, 34. 

 Shipchillum stream, 327. 

 Shooting a bear, 44. 

 Shooting under difficulties, 179. 

 Shore or Pithoragarh, 9. 

 Shot, lucky, 164 shockingly bad, 



167 a wasted, 186. 

 Shyok river, 234. 



Silence and loneliness of the hills, 24 1 . 

 Simla, 4. 



Sincl valley, beautiful, 228. 

 Snakes, an abode of, 139. 

 Snow, a crawl over the, 193 dirty 



melted, forming torrents, 245. 

 Snow-bridges, 189. 

 Snow-scene, grand, 298. 

 Snow-slopes, 117. 

 Snowstorm, a, 77. 

 Snowy range in prospect, 4. 

 Snowy waste, a, 278. 

 Spear-grass, 130. 

 Spectacle, extraordinary, 165. 

 Spiti bipeds and quadrupeds, 286. 

 Spotted-deer (Axis maculatus), 144. 

 Srinuggur, 94 excursion to, 123. 

 Stag, a splendid, 52. 

 Stag, Cashmere, the, 202 beauty of 



its horns, ib. on the trail of, 205. 

 Stag-shooting in Cashmere compared 



with deer-stalking in Scotland, 199 



the rutting season, 201. 

 Stalk, a long and difficult, 117. 

 Stalking a stag, 218. 

 Starlight in Tibet, 247. 

 Steadying the nerves, 120. 

 Strange presentiment sadly fulfilled, 



125. 



