78 SPORT IN THE HIGHLANDS OF KASHMIR chap. 



known places such as Bunji, Rondu, etc., having been 

 plotted from the Indian Atlas on to a blank sheet, I 

 marked on it, as correctly as was possible from an eye 

 sketch, the sites of the villages and nalas along the route 

 I travelled. This map, therefore, though not mathema- 

 tically accurate as far as these are concerned, will serve, 

 better than the Government chart, to render my move- 

 ments during the next few weeks intelligible. 



That afternoon the Munshi of Darsu (a village up 

 the Jutyal nala) came to our camp, having heard of our 

 arrival. His name was Bahar Shah. He was a sort 

 of superior headman, and exercised a modified kind of 

 authority over the lambardars of the different villages in 

 the Haramosh district. He had come to help in the 

 matter of supplies, and my various parwanas were 

 shown to him with much ceremony by the shikari. He 

 quickly produced a messenger to go to Bunji, which I 

 was told was the nearest post-office to Sarsal, and one 

 day's march away. So I gave the man my letters and 

 a telegram, with which he was to start in the morning. 

 The Munshi proved of much assistance all the time I 

 was in his neighbourhood, and spoke Hindustani 

 curiously well for a native of these secluded valleys. 



The morning of the 14th was wet and gloomy, and 

 it rained or drizzled practically all day. Bond went off 

 to his nala after breakfast, and I lay in the tent and was 

 lazy. Having left guns and everything that I could 

 possibly do without behind, there was nothing for me 

 to do till my luggage came up. Abdulla bought a 

 sheep for Rs.3,^ and mutton was therefore once more 



' This was the usual price I paid in Baltistan. 



