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was especially sorry, feeling in a measure re- 

 sponsible, having persuaded him to come. He 

 sent back word to the authorities in Kashmir, 

 but with very little hope of seeing his things 



again. 



On July 7th we reached Leh, after a very hot 

 march up the Indus valley. Our dogs suffered 

 much, and poor Johnstone Douglas had another 

 blow in the loss of his favourite fox -terrier. 

 Karakash Baratbai was there before us, and said 

 he was feeding up his ponies, but that we must 

 wait another month, as there was no chance of 

 crossing the rivers for some time. We also found 



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Dauvergne, a Frenchman, there, who had long 

 been settled in Kashmir, and had travelled a 

 great deal, and who intended taking the same 

 road as ourselves. He had brought up a stone 

 pillar which he intended to set up on the spot 

 where poor Dalgleish was murdered the year 

 before by Dad Mahomed, a Pathan. Douglas 

 and I were just starting off for Gya with the 

 intention of trying for an Ovis Ammon, when 

 Captain Ramsay, who is Joint-Commissioner at 

 Leh, came over to our bungalow and said informa- 

 tion had been received of our intention to travel to 

 the Pamir via Ruskum, and that by order of the 



