CHAPTER XI 



MAY 20-30 JUTYAL TO KUTYAL 



A blank day — March to Kutyal — Wet — No camp — Sheep-pens — Haramosh 

 by moonlight — The Round Gorge — -Markhor — Ibex — Rain — Herd 

 very wary — Hard stalk on 26th — Failed — Moved camp on 27th — 

 The same ibex again — Sleeping in the snow — Eleventh ibex — Second 

 red bear. 



The 20th of May was a day of hard walking, high up 

 along the western side of the nala, unrelieved by the sight 

 of any game. That evening our camp had been sent 

 back to where we had been on the 17th, but we found, 

 owing to the day having been warm and sunny, that the 

 snow-fed stream between us and the tents was greatly 

 swollen, and that wading was therefore necessary. The 

 men came over to help us, and with the aid of a big log 

 or two we got across without much trouble, but found 

 the cold of the river most painful. 



The same evening it was settled that the camp should 

 next day (21st) leave the Jutyal nala and go up that 

 known as Kutyal, and on the 22nd meet us at a sheep- 

 pen immediately above the village of Barchu in that 

 nala, — we, meantime, going round by the mountains and 

 sleeping the night of the 21st somewhere under a rock. 



