INDEX. 



Allah and the Prophet, assistance of, 



implored, 185. 

 Aneroid at fault, 311. 

 Antelope, four-horned, 144 — Tibetan, 



235— herd of, 236 — shooting a 



buck, 237. 

 Apparition, an unexpected, 195. 

 Apricots, dried, 252. 

 Argus, the horned, 187. 

 Artifices for following the trail of 



stags, 212. 

 Ascent, long and arduous, 67 — of 



Himalayan snow-peaks, 305 — ob- 

 stacles thereto, 305. 

 Avalanches, 92, 106, 311— of rocks 



and stones, 97, 295. 



Badrinath shrine, the, 349. 



Baggage-yaks, 248. 



"Baloo Mar," the village Nimrod, 



33. 

 Baramoola village, 93. 

 Basevi, Captain, 229 — parting with, 



before his death, 253. 

 Bear-hunt, a, 11 — trying to knock 



up a, 181. 

 Bear-meat, 17. 

 Bears, black, 9, 11 — a mother deserts 



her cub, 15 — fate of a cunning 



animal, 16 — where to hit them, 19 



— shooting, in the mulberry-groves, 



123. 

 Bears, brown Himalayan, 98, 101 — 



stalking two, 114. 

 Beast, mysterious, a, 297. 



Beehives, village, 17. 



Bees, wild, 157 — result of disturbing 



them, ib. 

 Beeves, wild, 243. 

 Benighted on the hill, 116. 

 Bezoar, 192. 

 Bhotias, the, 289, 308. 

 Bingareebeyl, cascade of, 292. 

 Birch-bark, uses of, 182. 

 Blackbirds, singing of, 188. 

 Bone, a mended, 169. 

 Boortze, a Tibetan plant, 250. 

 Bridge, an awkward, 313. 

 Bronchitis attacks Ovis Ammon, 324. 

 Buck, a patriarchal old, 104 — solitary 



old, 294. 

 Buck-fever, 37. 

 Buddhist cairns, 230 — monastery of 



Hemis, ib. 

 Bumpa hamlet, 309. 

 Burning of grass, annual, on the 



mountains, 83. 

 Burrell-ground, 303— flock of, 312— 



watching for, 314 — wounded, 



watching a, 343. 



Camp-bed, best kind of, 354. 

 Cane-brakes, 148. 

 Carrion-eating tiger, 56. 

 Cashmere method of driving a gorge, 



226. 

 Cashmere shikarees, 95. 

 Cashmere, Vale of, 92. 

 Cat, wild, enormous, killed, 63. 

 Cedars, deodar, 4. 



