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CHAPTER XX. 



FERRYING THE INDUS MOUNTAINS OF JASPER HANlJi AND ITS MON- 

 ASTERY A LAMA ABBOT THE " GOA " AND ITS HAUNTS ABNORMAL 

 RAINFALL ITS EFFECT ON TIBETAN GAME " GOA " TWO BUCKS 

 DESCRIED RESULT OF FORGETTING TO LOAD THE CHINESE BORDER 

 AN INTERVIEW WITH THE BORDERERS THEIR BEHAVIOUR A CURI- 

 OUS INCIDENT A LUCKY RIGHT-AND-LEFT GREAT VARIETY OF WILD- 

 FLOWERS MEET A BROTHER SPORTSMAN PACKS OF SAND-GROUSE 

 THE TSO MORARI ITS CHARACTERISTICS WILD GEESE A SOLITARY 

 DISCIPLE OF 8T HUBERT TWELVE DEGREES OF FROST IN AUGUST 

 THE TSO KAR OR SALT LAKE ITS FRESH-WATER NEIGHBOUR WILD- 

 FOWL A BLANKET CITY BROOD OF SNOW-PHEASANTS A SNOWY 

 WASTE VALLEY OF THE PARANG THE PARANG LA ACROSS IT IN 

 A SNOWSTORM ENDURANCE OF THE YAK A LUDICROUS PICTURE 

 THE SUMMIT AT LAST NATURE'S AWFUL WORKS A SURGICAL 

 OPERATION THE NAPOO OR BURRELL TWO KILLED IMMENSE 

 GLACIERS SPITI BIPEDS AND QUADRUPEDS KULU SCENERY RUSTIC 

 BEAUTIES RETURN TO CIVILISATION AN OLD BUT INTERESTING 

 NEWSPAPER KANGRA VALLEY THE END OF A LONG JOURNEY. 



SOUTH of the Indus, in the wild, almost uninhabited districts 

 of Hanld and Eookshu, there are good localities for Oves 

 Ammon ; but as Changter refused to budge an inch farther 

 than the river, and we were unable to get any one else who 

 was able or willing to show us where to find them, we re- 

 solved to make direct for the village of Hanle", there to engage 

 a guide who had been recommended to the Major. Thence, 

 after hunting up the goa, or Tibetan gazelle, in the country 

 beyond it, we proposed returning with our new guide to again 

 try our luck at the big sheep. 



Getting our traps ferried over the Indus at Numa was 



