GOORKA SEPOYS. 19 



May 18tli. — 'Moved towards Jalah, and 

 sent the Kttle Goorkha with mj double gun 

 and two men to bring in the tahir shot 

 yesterday. The Goorkha sepoys are capital 

 followers in the hills ; bred in the mountains, 

 and fond of sport from childhood, they 

 become much attached to Europeans, and 

 being pluck to the backbone are equally 

 good soldiers as sportsmen. In one of the 

 actions on the Sutlej, the commandant of a 

 Goorkha corps was killed, the men became 

 frantic at the loss of an officer they loved, 

 smeared themselves with blood, and rushing 

 uj)on the Sikhs with the heavy curved knife 

 every Goorkha carries, they avenged his 

 death by a fearful slaughter. No sport to- 

 day ; had a good snap shot at two tahir, 

 but missed. Breakfasted in the snow (the 

 hill being one of the Snowy range) and 

 descended over five miles of snow through 

 thick brushwood of rhododendron partly 

 in blossom. On our way we found a musk- 

 deer in a trap, and being a female we 

 let her go, but she was so cramped 



