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Shushal Kotwal was protesting vigorously, and endea- 

 vouring to detain them. When I went out I ordered the 

 yaks to be stopped at once, and said they should not go 

 till I got substitutes. The yaks were accordingly brought 

 back, and the Nimu men then said they would let the 

 animals be taken, provided Shushal men went to drive 

 and load them, they — the Nimu men — going back to 

 their village. The Kotwal vowed he had not enough 

 men in the village, and the altercation was renewed. 



Finally, I got the yaks loaded up by the Nimu men, 

 and with four of them and a few men from Shushal, 

 began my day's march about 8 a.m. With difficulty one 

 of the two ponies from Nimu was changed, but the other 

 which I brought on proved so footsore as to be practically 

 useless. We reached the Takkung camping ground, 

 close to the Pangong Lake, about eleven, and had break- 

 fast there under some small tamarisk - trees, and by a 

 pretty fast-flowing clear river. Then we marched on 

 by the lake to the village of Karkpet, where we arrived 

 about 2,30 P.M., and resolved to stop for the night. We 

 had covered about 13 miles. 



Our tent was pitched facing the lake, and from our 

 verandah we had a lovely view. The terra-cotta shades 

 of the mountains behind, contrasting with the exquisite 

 dark blue of the lake, made up a picture which, seen 

 through the brilliantly clear air of Ladak, was one not 

 easily to be forgotten. 



The next morning we succeeded, after some trouble, 

 in changing the footsore pony, and marched on 8 miles 

 to Mun, where we breakfasted in a charming little wood 

 of white-stemmed trees, with leaves like those of a willow. 



