CHAPTER IV 



KRISH NULLAH 



A COUPLE of days double-marching brought 

 us to the foot of our nullah, the Krish, and 

 we had reached the place called "Gurm 

 Pani,"or hot springs, a recognized point, the 

 attainment of which gave us the sole right 

 of shooting the Krish ; so now we had no 

 further cares on that score. 



It was a quaint sort of spot this " Gurm 

 Pani." The river of snow water, surging 

 along through the valley, was bounded on 

 one side by steep hills, running down to the 

 river, covered with birch and fir forests, the 

 birch of course quite bare, with silver stems, 

 and the firs very black amidst their snow 

 surroundings. The other side consisted of 

 absolutely precipitous cliffs, with a narrow 

 plain, some one hundred yards in width, 

 between the cliffs and the river. On this 

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