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CHAPTER XXIII. 



IMPRESSIONS OF HUNDE"S WARY OLD RAMS KIANGS IN THE WAY THE 

 JONGPEN'S MESSENGERS RETURN SIGNING A CONTRACT HOONYA 

 SHEEP-SHEARING AN OVIS AMMON WITH BRONCHITIS GREY WOLVES 

 DONGPU A TARTAR HAMLET LARGE TROOPS OF KIANG THEIR 

 MANOEUVRES THE SUTLEJ THE LAL DAKA VENISON FOR CAMP HOW 

 WE CAUGHT A DISH OF FISH A STUDY IN ENTOMOLOGY EMBARRAS 



DES RICHESSESTH-E DUKKA HILLS MISFORTUNES WILL HAPPEN- 

 THEY NEVER COME SINGLE A CRUELLY COLD MORNING IN JUNE 

 LARGE FLOCK OF BIG RAMS IN THE NICK OF TIME A MOST ENJOY- 

 ABLE SMOKE AFTER A WOUNDED RAM INTRUDERS ON THE SCENE 

 JUST TOO LATE A BEWILDERED FLOCK A TANTALISING OPPOR- 

 TUNITY A TIRESOME TRUDGE WELCOME REST. 



WE were now well out on the undulating uplands of Hundes, 

 and traversing ground where we might expect to find the big 

 wild sheep. A strange weird-looking land, to all appearance 

 a desert, stretching far and wide before us towards distant 

 ranges of barren undulating mountains, tinted with every 

 shade of red, yellow, purple, and blue, rising tier beyond tier, 

 and culminating in snow-clad ridges and peaks all their 

 features looking marvellously distinct through the clear rare 

 atmosphere. Broad table-lands, averaging about 15,000 feet 

 above the sea-level, bare, brown, and monotonous, sloping 

 gradually down from the foot of the great snowy chain of the 

 Himalayas behind us, and intersected by huge ravines, grow- 

 ing deeper and wider as they all trend northwards towards 

 the river Sutlej, here called the Satroodra, flowing (from east 

 to west), hidden among their mighty labyrinths, far away 

 below us. The solemn waste here and there diversified by 



