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meanours, lie was ordered to carry a load 

 and banished the hill side ; however, when 

 ■ sufficiently punished, we relented, and he 

 was afterwards reinstated. 



The glacier at the head of the Pongee valley, 

 is one of the finest I ever saw, and would 

 well repay any traveller who may visit Simla 

 during an Eastern tour, for the few days it 

 would take to reach it. 



Here we had but poor sport, and halted 

 on Sunday at Lipee. Two journeys placed 

 us a mile beyond Ropa, and a very long 

 march up the valley followed ; Campbell 

 and Wilson brought in an ibex in the 

 evening. Next day I shot two females, and 

 my companions made a bad business of it, 

 by missing a herd of fine old males ; this 

 induced us to move up near where they had 

 been seen, but we had not the good fortune 

 to fall in with them. 



On the 1st July we crossed the Manerung 

 pass into Spitee, and late at night reached 

 the Tartar village of Manes ; five or six of 

 our men were very ill, and Jaunto, the cook, 



