20 A TTIOROUGTI SPORTSMAN. 



him to India, his health sent him to Landour, 

 from whence he took a journey in the hills. 

 Returned to England, he was unable to 

 forget the life he had led in the Himalayas, 

 which had for him an irresistible charm. 

 Not overburdened with money, he worked 

 his passage out to Calcutta, and walked 

 straight up to Meerut, a distance of nearly 

 900 miles, in thirty days. From thence to the 

 hills was an easy trip, where he has been 

 a resident for the last seven years. A 

 thorough sportsman, about the middle height, 

 light, active, and hardy ; never tired, never 

 out of humour ; a capital walker, and never 

 to be deterred by difficulties from an3rthing 

 once undertaken. He was to me a most 

 invaluable companion, and became a very 

 dear friend. His thorough knowledge of the 

 Puharrie * character, and intimate acquaint- 

 ance with the men of the upper villages of 

 Gangootrie and Jumnootrie, enabled us to 



* The Puharries, or moimtaiiieers, a name derived from 

 " Puhar," a mountain, and generally used by Europeaas, when 

 speaking of the inhabitants of the Himalayas. 



