SPORT AND TRAVEL IN THE HIMALAYAS 



[Extracts from letters written by an Indian officer while 



travelling in company with his wife (N ) in search 



of sport amongst the Himalaya Mountains.] 



Barakat Tehri, Garhwal, 



India May i;$th, 1906. 



JUST a line to let you know that N- and myself are 



quite fit. No letters since leaving Missowi on the 8th. 

 I will give this to the first man I meet going towards 

 Missowi. We are still marching some ten or eleven 

 miles each day, and are going to the wild-sheep (baral) 

 ground up in the snows. We are following the valley of 

 the Bargrothi River along the great pilgrim route. The 

 Ganges has two sources, one at Zai muckh (in the cow's 

 mouth) in the Gamgotoi glacier, whence rises the Bag- 

 hirathi River, and one at Badrinath in another glacier, 

 whence rises the Anandana River We are making for 

 the former glacier, and upon arriving there will be at 

 an altitude of 14,700 feet. 



We are now 7000 feet high, but in a valley, and the 

 heat in the sun is terrific. The flies are simply awful. 

 As regards shooting, so far we have had none. During 

 the first ten days we could only just drag out our ten 

 miles. The scenery is magnificent. We are roughing 

 it, as each coolie will only carry a load of 50 Ib. We 



started out with twenty coolies and a shikari. We 



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