222 KOOLOO. 



a fortnight, he having accompanied us from 

 Manes. 



Crossing the Rotunka pass, we entered 

 Kooloo, and at our first halting-place, fell in 

 with an old shikaree, who promised to show 

 us, what we fancied from his description 

 were tahir. So next day, we moved up a 

 valley to the north-west, and pitched the 

 tents at a late hour in the evening, close to 

 a glacier, where we had good ground and 

 abundance of wood. We had just time 

 before dark to take a stroll ; I found the 

 fresh traces of a bear, and Campbell and 

 "Wilson saw three old male ibex, but left them 

 for the morrow, without disturbing them. 

 We supped, in high hopes of having good 

 sport in the morning. 



Making an early start, Campbell and 

 Wilson went to the left, where they had seen 

 the ibex, and I with my chosen followers, 

 Ossaroo and old Gye Sing, went to the right 

 along a high ridge. Ere long we discovered 

 a flock of thirteen ibex, feeding under the 

 ridge, and after a good deal of reconnoiter- 



