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 set itself free. — A sii,-ire described. — Bruin's pitiable condition. 

 — A three-legged bear. — Leopard-shooting. — Novel method. — 

 Impromptu lantern. — Lucky shot. — Wild boars. — The hunt.- — 

 Brought to bay. — A discussion settled. — A gallant defence. — 

 Strong positions. — Death of the boar 268 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Plans for 1851. — How frustrated. — Start for the hills at last. — 

 Meet Wils.ou. — Singular coincidence. — Kotenoor. — A wild boar. 

 — Splendid charge. — Ossaroo. — My companion kills his first 

 bear.— A dog lost. — Often carried off by legpards in the hills. — 

 Valley of the Tense. — The wounded bear. — Good sport during 

 the week. — Our surgical skill called into requisition. — A 

 wrestle with a leopard. — An ugly-looking customer. — Too 

 much for Ossaroo's nerves. — Night sets in. — The second day's 

 hunt. — Baffled again. — The third day's chase and the third 

 cave. — Bruin's death. — The valley of the single family. — 

 Abundance of game. — Musk Deer. — Gooral, Tahir, and Serow. 

 — Kooar. — Start for Penee 289 



CHAPTEH XIV. 



Magnificent oaj: forests. — The winter of 1850-51. — Avalanches. — 

 Destruction occasioned by them. — Scene in the Buspa valley. — 

 Burrell scared by an avalanche. — Steeplechase on a glacier. — 

 Extortion and insolence in the protected districts. — Eampore. 

 — Seran. — The young Eajah. — Gun-cotton. — The sinall-pox. — 

 Vaccination. — Teree pass. — Ibex-shooting. — Tartar village. — • 

 Rumours of other shooting parties. — Push on to the Salt Lake. 

 — Lofty pass of Farung-la. — Sickness. — " Bis." — A hunter's 

 death. — Uninteresting country. — Tartars. — Choomureri lake. — 

 Tartar oxen. — Salt Lake. — The kiang, or wild horse. — Shooting 

 wild fowl. — Ovis Ammon. — Our first attempt. — Increase of 

 our party. — Driving the wild .sheep. — Success of the drive. — 

 Consequences of alsandoning yom- post. — Ovis Ammon shooting. 

 — Where found. — Its exceeding shyness. — Ovis Poli. — Hear of 

 another variety of wild sheep from the Tartars . . . 31; 



