254 TRAVELS IN THE EIGHTIES. 



than Constantinople, Jerusalem, Teheran, Peshawar 

 or Canton. Whenever I stopped a throng at once 

 collected and stared in a timid kind of way as though 

 I were dangerous. This annoyed me so, that after 

 finishing a rapid sketch from one of the bridges, 

 during which interval a large crowd had assembled, I 

 suddenly gave a spring and a yell which had the 

 effect of sending them flying in all directions, half of 

 them sprawling on the ground in their fright. 



There existed at the moment no other British 

 tourist within the Yale of Kashmir. For the purpose 

 of stalking and procuring a specimen of a stag 

 barasingh, or Kashmir red deer, I decided the Sind 

 Valley to be most convenient ; these fine animals 

 (with horns far larger than Scotch red deer's, and yet 

 smaller than those of the American species) are appa- 

 rently becoming more and more scarce each year; this 

 Sind Yalley, however, as well as several other portions 

 of the country, by order of the Governor, were being 

 kept for the Viceroy, who was expected on a visit 

 here in April, and the inhabitants were forbidden to 

 fire a shot therein. A purwanah, or order, from His 

 Excellency the Governor was therefore necessary, 

 which was soon obtained, especially as I explained 

 that I should feel satisfied with a single head. I 

 refrained, however, from inquiring what other game 

 the Viceroy was expected to hunt than barasinc/h, 

 since by the month of April the stags would already 

 have shed their antlers, and no excuse for shooting 

 them would then exist. A shikari was next engaged, 



