196 SPORT IN THE HIGHLANDS OF KASHMIR chap. 



men (from Shut, Honuspa, Darsu, Barchu, and Sarsal) 

 being present, I inquired whether the shikari and my 

 other servants had paid for all supplies during the time 

 we had been in the neighbourhood, and on being told 

 that nothing was due, I made the Munshi give a receipt 

 to this effect to Abdulla. I then took a photograph of 

 the six men, much to their amusement, and marched down 

 to the rope bridge. 



We had bought a few sheep to take with us, and 

 these were carried across the bridge one at a time. The 

 fore-feet were tied round a man's neck, and the sheep, 

 thus hung over his shoulders, presented a most comic 

 appearance. 



We followed the Bunji trail (often ascertainable only 

 by small heaps of stones), on the left bank of the Indus, 

 till we reached the spot where we had camped on the 

 23rd of April. It was then about 11 a.m., and exceed- 

 ingly hot, so we all sat down under shady rocks and 

 had breakfast. The only water was that procurable from 

 the Indus, and this was so turbid that I could not see 

 the bottom of my canteen when I was drinking. But it 

 was cold and tasted well that sweltering day. 



There being no springs on the Burme range, water, as 

 mentioned before, can there only be obtained from snow. 

 But this had, by the time we wished to revisit those hills, 

 receded far up the ridge, and could not be reached in a 

 single day's march from Sarsal. As the distance rendered 

 a halt necessary somewhere half-way to the snow, we 

 had to take water up with us. So my chargal (small 

 water-skin) was filled, and the mussuk (large water-skin) 

 should also have been filled. But this was carried by 



