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light yellow in colour. Besides, the old males are at this 

 season seldom with the females, but go about together in 

 small herds." The markhor were too far off for us to 

 do anything towards intercepting them then, but as they 

 were pretty sure to come upwards in the morning along 

 pretty much the same route, we felt confident of seeing 

 them again, and turned back with our minds much 

 relieved. On reaching camp I found that the Kashmiri 

 I had left behind sick at Skardo (one of the permanent 

 coolies) had arrived with my letters and papers. So I 

 had plenty of reading to occupy me after dinner. That 

 night I wrote to Merewether to get me a telescope if 

 possible. 



