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higher regions. Another reason why these " paharees " are so 

 helpless on ice is, that they are so badly shod. Boots are un- 

 known among them, and many of them only wear shoes 

 on festive occasions. Moreover, every high snow-peak is re- 

 garded by these mountaineers, who are mostly Hindoos, with 

 superstitious awe, as the abode of one or other of their deities, 

 whom they fear to offend. Himalayan guides will doubtless 

 improve at ice work ere long, if their services are in demand 

 for that purpose. The Cashmere mountaineers, who are chiefly 

 Mahomedans, and who have their lower extremities protected 

 by sandals and bandages, are much more at home on steep 

 snow-slopes and ice. 



After going up one of the Doonagiri glaciers for there are 

 two which unite a considerable distance, I got such a racking 

 headache, probably from the combined effects of the intense 

 heat of the sun on the glacier and the cutting wind that came 

 sweeping over it, that I was forced to return. The evening 

 was spent watching, with the spy-glass, the movements of two 

 or three small lots of burrell that were feeding on a rugged, 

 partially grass-clad slope away across a deep and wide treeless 

 hollow, down which ran the broken torrent that drained 

 the glacier. As there were several good-looking heads in one 

 of the flocks, I resolved to be after them on the morrow. 



Not caring to ford the deep rapid snow-stream the first 

 thing in the morning, we took a longer way to cross it dry- 

 footed, up over the bottom of the glacier ; consequently we 

 were a considerable time reaching our ground, close as it 

 appeared in a direct line. At the early hour we had set out, 

 it was too dark to take a look with the glass across the 

 hollow, but on nearing the place where, the evening before, I 

 had last seen the burrell, we descried a flock with rams in it 

 away down below. Whilst attempting to approach these, 

 another lot we had not noticed above, and which evidently 

 contained the bigger-horned fellows we wanted to find, got 

 intelligence of us and betook themselves far up the slope, 



