CHAPTER XIII. 



Plans for 1851. — How frustrated. — Start for the hills at last. — Sleet Wilson. 

 — Singular coincidence. — Kotenoor. — A wild boar. — Splendid charge. — • 

 Ossaroo. — My companion kills his first bear. — A dog lost. — Often carried 

 off by leopards in the hills. — Valley of the Ton«e. — The wounded bear. 

 — Good sport during the week. — Our surgical skill called into requisition. 

 — A wrestle with a leopard. — An ugly-looking customer. — Too much for 

 Ossaroo's nerves. — Night sets in. — The second day's hunt. — Baffled again. 

 - — The third day's chase and the third cave. — Bruin's death. — The valley 

 of the single family. — Al)undance of game. — Musk Deer, Gooral, Tahir, 

 and Serow. — Kooar. — Start for Penee. 



1851. I HAD arranged for this year, with 

 "Wilson, to make Kote Kangra our starting 

 point, to which place he was to bring all the 

 men we should require, with the necessary 

 stores, &c., from his own district. We 

 looked forward to enjoying a more extended 

 trip than last year's expedition, to shooting 

 over the north-eastern slopes of the moun- 

 tains, and visiting some of the countries 

 lying beyond the Himalayas. 



