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CHAPTER II. 



SPORTING WANDERINGS. 



THE PILGRIM AT THE BRIDGE SHOOTING BURREL IN THE 



PIR PANJAL AFTER MARKHOR A NARROW ESCAPE DEATH 



OF RASAKA RETURN TO LEH FESTIVAL AT A GOMPA 



ACROSS THE SASAR AND KARAKORAM PASSES AN OASIS 



OVIS AMMON AND SHAPOO. 



AFTER a good deal of travelling and contretemps 

 of various kinds, without any particular sport, I 

 made up my mind to have a look at Colonel 

 Markham's old shooting-ground above Gangootri, 

 of which I had read an account when he went 

 there years ago with shikari Wilson. 



The road as far as the Hindoo shrine was quite 

 good, but after that I found it rather difficult. 

 There being no bridges, I had to cut down trees 

 and make them myself. After a few days' hard 

 work I got up to the Gaomukhi, or Cow's Mouth, 

 as the natives call the mouth of the glacier. It 



