386 SPORT IN THE HIGHLANDS OF KASHMIR chap. 



working hard all day without seeing anything, we 

 dropped down a side nala to the Rumbok village, and 

 there found our camp. 



I did not get up very early on the morning of the 

 26th, owing to the cold, but waited till the sun was well 

 up and shining into the valley. We then walked up 



Leh Bazaar (p- 373)- 



nearly to its end and turned north up the hill. Going 

 rather incautiously over the crest, we were seen by four 

 burhel rams, which promptly made off up some high crags. 

 On perceiving them we lay down, and watched till they 

 disappeared over the top. Then going a little further 

 up the crest we went after them, seeing two more rams 

 on the way, but these were out of sight almost at once. 



We reached the top of the slate crags near where the 

 four burhel had gone, after a very severe climb, partly 

 over slate rocks and partly over ddbris. No signs of 



