90 THE SAKDA VALLEY. 



comparatively easy travelling, darkness was setting in ere we 

 reached our camp. 



We had now descended again to the continuation of the 

 beaten track used by the Tartar traders, which up here fol- 

 lows the course of the Kallee (or the Sarda, as it is also called) 

 for a considerable distance farther up the deep tortuous valley 

 through which that big impetuous river flows, forming the 

 boundary-line between British and Nepalese territory. 



Starting at daybreak, we followed the regular mountain-road 

 for a few miles, until we reached a small village, built on a 

 slope, near the foot of a spur of the Chipla, abutting on the 

 Kallee. Here I breakfasted, made arrangements for replen- 

 ishing our stock of supplies, and engaged fresh local guides 

 and coolies for carrying the traps, preparatory to once more 

 encountering the difficulties of the craggy heights of the 

 Chipla, after tahr. 



Farther up the valley of the Kallee, on the open grassy 

 slopes just below the perpetual snow-line, are good grounds 

 for "burrell" (Ovis nahura). But I shall leave these wild 

 sheep and their haunts alone for the present, as we are now 

 after wild goats. 



