IGG THE WHITE LEOPARD. 



half-grown cub. This is the only one 1 

 ever saw, although I have seen their fresh- 

 made tracks day after day. 



As it roams about apparently as much 

 by day as by night, it is surprising and 

 unaccountable how it evades observation; 

 the more so as its principal resorts are 

 above the limits of forest, where is little or 

 no cover, one would imagine, sufficient to 

 conceal it from sight. Even the shepherds 

 who pass the whole of the summer months, 

 year after year, in the regions it inhabits, 

 but seldom see one; except when their 

 flocks are attacked by night, which the 

 white leopard occasionally does to some 

 purpose. Everywhere their traces are to 

 be found, often as if the animal had passed 

 only a short time previously, but it is, as it 

 were, invisible. I think this variety is most 

 common on the northern slopes of the 

 Himalayas, where the hills descend from 

 the snow to the valley of the Sutlej. 



On the morning of the 13th August we 

 went on towards Polinsundra, and to our 



