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CHAPTER XXII. 



DOONAGIRI VILLAGE A HIMALAYAN GLACIER BURRELL - GROUND 

 KILL TWO RAMS FEMALE PORTERS FINE OLD DEODAR - TREES 

 BHOTIA VILLAGES OF KOSA AND MALARI BURGLARIOUS BEARS 

 SOLITUDE AND DESOLATION BHOTIAS, MALE AND FEMALE GOOSE- 

 BERRY AND CURRANT BUSHES ROCK-SLIPS PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPES 

 FROM THEM NITI VILLAGE STRANGE COLLECTION OF OLD SHOES- 

 TIBETAN ENVOY THE "JOOBOO" FROM NITI TO GOTING SUMMER 

 AVALANCHES OLD BIRCH-TREES SNOW-PHEASANTS BAD WALKING 

 A DAY'S SPORT AT GOTING AN AWKWARD BRIDGE ALPINE ROSE 

 A GRAND OLD RAM A MISTAKE A SNOW-LEOPARD SHARES OUR 

 SPOILS WILD DEFILE THE NITI PASS VIEW OF HUND^S FROM ITS 

 SUMMIT A NOTEWORTHY WATERSHED SKETCHING UNDER DIFFI- 

 CULTIES A TERRIBLY COLD CAMP A DEPUTATION FROM THE JONG- 

 PEN OUR HOONYA ESCORT. 



BELOW the northern slopes of Doonagiri purbat, in the 

 middle of an immense kind of corrie several miles broad, lies 

 a Bhotia hamlet bearing the same name as the mountain, at 

 an elevation of nearly 12,000 feet. The broken grassy slopes 

 about the foot of a big glacier which runs down the east side of 

 the purbat and discharges itself into this huge natural amphi- 

 theatre, are, early in the season, a favourite resort of burrell, 

 before the villagers take their flocks up there for the summer 

 pasturage. Thither, therefore, I now resolved to direct my 

 steps. 



Crossing the Doulee by a rude wooden bridge, we proceeded 

 for several miles along its opposite bank, where the rocks 

 sometimes rose so directly from the river as to necessitate 

 their being passed on rough loose planks or poles supported 



