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choice, and so made off to our tents. Next 

 morning we found her lying dead with 

 twelve balls through her ; establishing a 

 fact I have often i-emarked, that when once 

 an animal is wounded, it will receive and 

 go off with many a wound, which had it 

 been the first given, would have instantly 

 stopped it. 



At the head of the Neila valley is the pass 

 of the same name, leading over to the Buspa 

 river. At the foot of the pass we had the 

 misfortune to lose the services of Ossaroo, 

 who became so ill, that he had to remain 

 behind and return to his own village : he 

 was an irreparable loss to me. We had 

 ascended the pass next day, about six miles, 

 when Clapcott was taken ill also, and we 

 were obliged to halt at a spot where for- 

 tunately there was a little wood. In the 

 morning we crossed the pass, which although 

 of great altitude, being 16,000 feet above the 

 sea, is tolerably easy to surmount ; the day 

 was fine until we reached the summit, when a 

 blmding storm of snow came on. Descending 



