42 THE KILTA. 



strawberry pottle, flattened on one side, so 

 as to fit tlie back, and carried somewhat 

 like a knapsack. A staff used "en route" as 

 a walking-stick, forms a prop to support 

 the kilta, when the coolie rests by the 

 wayside. In our ignorance w^e had brought 

 up with us our usual servants from the 

 plains ; a great mistake which I never 

 repeated, for in the hills they are generally 

 as useless, as they are troublesome. 



Our route lay for ten miles up the right 

 bank of the Ganges, the scenery very 

 beautiful and increasing in wildness. Rain 

 fell all night, and a heavy thunder-storm 

 next morning prevented the coolies from 

 making more than four mUes on a bad 

 mountain-track to Hilgah, where we were 

 forced to halt. In the evening it cleared 

 up, and we all went out to look for gooral, 

 the chamois of the Himalayas ; some were 

 seen, but none shot. 



Started in good time for Bengallee, a 

 village at the foot of the mountains that 

 are known by that name. . Arriving before 



