HARMONIES. 



burrell is considered as the first of Himalayan 

 game animals, and the killing of it the ne plus 

 ultr.i of Himalayan shooting. 



How grand are the regions in which it dwells ! 

 An enthusiastic and successful sportsman furnishes 

 us with the following vivid picture of the wild 

 sheep and its home: — 



"Wo started early to reach the source of the 

 mighty Ganges. The opposite bank being the 

 best ground for burrell, we were in great hopes 

 that we might find sufficient snow left to enable 

 us to cross the river ; but the snow that at times 

 bridges over the stream was gone. The walking 

 was bad, for in all the small tributary streams 

 were stones and rocks incrusted with ice, which 

 made them very difficult to cross. On the oppo- 

 site side we saw immense flocks of burrell, but 

 there was no getting at them. 



"At last, the great glacier of the Ganges was 

 reached, and never can I forget my first impres- 

 sions when I beheld it before me in all its savage 

 grandeur. The glacier, thickly studded with enor- 

 mous loose rocks and earth, is about a mile in 

 width, and extends upwards many miles, towards 

 an immense mountain, covered with perpetual 

 snow down to its base, and its glittering summit 

 piercing the very skies, rising 21,000 feet above 

 the level of the sea. The chasm in the glacier, 

 through which the sacred stream rushes forth into 

 the light of day, is named the Cow's Mouth, and 

 is held in the deepest reverence by all the Hindoos ; 

 and the regions of eternal frost in its vicinity are 

 the scenes of many of their most sacred mysteries. 

 The Ganges enters the world no puny stream, but 

 bursts forth from its icy womb, a river thirty or 

 forty yards in breadth, of great depth and very 

 rapid. A burrell was killed by a lucky shot across 

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