CHAPTER VII 



APRIL 20-26 BURME TO SHUT 



Markhor again seen — Long wait watching — Stalk — Bad ground — First 

 markhor shot — Three big ones go off — Mistakes made — Small head 

 — Three markhor seen — And lost — View of Deobani and Haramosh 

 — Changed camp — View of Gilgit — Camp by Indus — March to 

 Honuspa via Sarsal — Shut — View of Gilgit valley — Markhor seen 

 — Long chmb down — Second markhor killed — Horns smashed — Long 

 climb back. 



I WAS wakened before dawn on the 20th of April by 

 hearing one of the men making a fire outside my tent, a 

 thing I was very glad of, when half an hour later I was 

 sitting beside the blazing wood having my chota hazri. 

 It is one of the comforts of shooting in Baltistan, as 

 compared with similar work in Ladak, that firewood is 

 plentiful and of the best quality in the former country. 

 Pine or cedar is what is usually burnt, and either, 

 especially the latter, makes an excellent fire, bright and 

 warm and with little ash. 



Leaving word for the camp to be brought on near to 

 the place, higher up the main ridge, where we had had 

 breakfast the day before, Abdulla, Chand, Zaru, and 

 I went on ahead, and after a couple of hours or so 

 sighted the markhor again. We saw them from a 



