INDEX. 



361 



Pigs, wild, 40. 

 I'ir l*iinchal range, 1 72, 

 Pithoragarh or Shore, 9. 

 Poisonous exhalations, 240. 

 Polyanthus, 273. 

 Ponds, hill, or '*trags,"211. 

 Pony, usefulness of a, 244. 

 i'oolas, thin rope of twisted rice- 

 straw, 102. 

 Porcupines, 135. 



Pork, an unsuccessful stalk for, 70. 

 Porters, female, 307. 

 Position, a precarious, 295. 

 Pottage, making, 250. 

 Prayer-cylinders, 230. 

 Precipice, shelling a, 171. 

 Predicament, awkward, 178. 

 Providence, tempting, 28. 

 Puddoo, 289. 



" Pulla " or low wall, 275. 

 "Pumped," 237. 

 Pythons, hunting, 138. 



Race for a shot, 190. 



Ram, a grand old, 315 — after a 



wounded, 334 — killing a, 342. 

 Rams, two, killed, 306. 

 Ramzan Meer, an old shikaree, 96. 

 Random shot, a, and its consequences, 



194. 

 Rarefied air and its effects, 251. 

 Rats and mice, an invasion of, 222. 

 Ravens, a pair of big, 250. 

 Reddish-yellow hills, 241. 

 Reid, Colonel, joins, on a shooting 



expedition, 134. 

 Remorse, a twinge of, 210. 

 Rhododendron-bushes, 4, 68. 

 Roads, mountain, 4. 

 Rookshu, district of, 264 — people, 



275. 

 Roughing it on the hill, 122. 

 Ruins, ancient, on the Jhelum, 93. 

 Rutting season, the, 201. 

 Rutting stags, recklessness of, 211. 

 Rwing, camped at, 307. 



Sakchu, rapid stream of melted snow, 

 325. 



Salmon and mahseer fishing contrast- 

 ed, 21. 



Salt-lick, artificial, 48. 



Salt-licks, 88. 



Sambur or " jurrow," 23. 



Sand-grouse, 273. 



Sanga or wooden bridge, 303. 



Satroodra, river Sutlej, 320. 



Scene, beautiful, 168. 



Seraitota, 292. 



Sewaliks, fossil remains in the, 128 



— game of the, 130 — the ridge of 



the, 135. 

 Shangus, village of, 96. 

 Shawl- weavers, 127. 

 Sheep, wild, 3. 

 Shikaree, the native, 34. 

 Shipchillum stream, 327. 

 Shooting a bear, 44. 

 Shooting under difficulties, 179. 

 Shore or Pithoragarh, 9. 

 Shot, lucky, 164 — shockingly bad, 



167— a wasted, 186. 

 Shyok river, 234. 



Silence and loneliness of the hills, 241. 

 Simla, 4. 



Sind valley, beautiful, 228. 

 Snakes, an abode of, 139. 

 Snow, a crawl over the, 193 — dirty 



melted, forming torrents, 245. 

 Snow-bridges, 189. 

 Snow-scene, grand, 298. 

 Snow-slopes, 117. 

 Snowstorm, a, 77. 

 Snowy range in prospect, 4. 

 Snowy waste, a, 278. 

 Spear-grass, 130. 

 Spectacle, extraordinary, 165. 

 Spiti bipeds and quadrupeds, 286. 

 Spotted-deer {Axis macidatun), 144. 

 Srinuggur, 94 — excursion to, 123. 

 Stag, a splendid, 52. 

 Stag, Cashmere, the, 202 — beauty of 



its horns, ib. — on the trail of, 205. 

 Stag- shooting in Cashmere compared 



with deer- stalking in Scotland, 199 



— the rutting season, 201. 

 Stalk, a long and difficult, 117. 

 Stalking a stag, 218. 

 Starlight in Tibet, 247. 

 Steadying the nerves, 120. 

 Strange presentiment sadly fulfilled, 



125. 



