74 WILSON STARTS FOE THIBET. 



lost at least a fortnight of good shooting 

 weather. Here also we parted with Wilson, 

 who was going off upon a sj)orting-excur- 

 sion to Thibet. Very sorry to lose him, for 

 a more agreeable companion could not be ; 

 full of anecdote and information ; and of 

 that happy equable temper, that no vexa- 

 tions or disappointments can put out of 

 humour, a quality valuable indeed to any 

 one, but to a sportsman a very treasure. 



May 30th. — An eighteen mile march, I 

 and my little Goorkha, went out to look 

 for gooral, but were driven home by a 

 thunder-storm, and when I came in I found 

 the occupants of the tent looking so unhappy 

 at the idea of the beautiful trip across the 

 hills to the Jumna which we had laid out, 

 that we gave up the plan and agreed to 

 follow the usual route, returning to Barra- 

 haat by the opposite bank of the Ganges 

 to that by which we had ascended. On the 

 road thither we fell in with a numerous 

 party of flat-faced Tartars, who cross the 

 mountains with flocks of sheep and donkeys 



