340 TIBETAN FISH. 



survey stations on the highest points of the Lai Daka, with 

 a view to making observations from them of more distant, 

 and, to Europeans, almost unknown regions beyond the Sut- 

 lej. His letter contained a message respecting his progress 

 thus far, which he asked me to convey to his chief — Colonel 

 J. T. Walker, RE., at Dehra Doon. I congratulated myself 

 on having finished my hunting operations on the Lai Daka 

 before he and his party commenced their scientific ones, 

 which, valuable as they most assuredly would be to geo- 

 graphical interests, were not likely to be conducive to those 

 of sport. 



Next day we sent our camp on a few miles, whilst Puddoo 

 and I took a beat over the broken slopes above, which turned 

 out blank. In the evening, however, we did some successful 

 fish-poaching — at which my Goorkha servant proved an 

 adept — in a stream that ran past the camp, by constructing 

 a dam to divert the course of the water above a shallow 

 pool, the result being about a dozen fish left high and dry. 

 They averaged five or six inches in length, and were coarse- 

 headed and to all appearance scaleless, of a greyish colour 

 above, silvery below, and profusely covered with dark-grey 

 spots. Some of the streams in Tibet contain a prodigious 

 number of fish, and all, I believe, are good eating. Many 

 of the streams lose themselves in the sand, and appear 

 again at intervals, sometimes only in little pools of clear 

 water. These pools often teem with little fish about the 

 size of small minnows. Tlie glacier streams that flow from 

 the north side of the Himalayan range, though perfectly 

 clear until noon, are in the afternoon far more muddy and 

 thick than those that flow from the south side. The fish 

 in these northward-flowing streams ascend the clear little 

 brooks that run into them, often in shoals, when quantities 

 of them can sometimes easily be captured up to a pound or 

 more in weight. 



Here we found some Niti Bhotias encamped, and amongst 

 them one of Puddoo's brothers. From him we learnt that 



