THE TASHKURGAN GLACIER. IO/ 



previous day, a very fine goolja had started 

 up suddenly within 100 yards of him, and 

 paused a moment. Throwing up his rifle, 

 which fortunately he had loaded in his hand, 

 he dropped him before he could get away. 



Going up the nullah next morning, which 

 debouched near our carnp from the north, I 

 spotted a herd of ibex, and with my glasses 

 made out two bucks amongst them, but as 

 their horns were small, let them be. Five 

 miles farther on, the nullah took a bend, and 

 on rounding the shoulder a most magnificent 

 view greeted me. 



I was looking into a kind of amphitheatre. 

 The rocky precipices which bound it were too 

 steep for snow to lodge on, and for this reason 

 had formed a huge glacier at the base. Out 

 of this glacier, which ended in a wall of ice 

 at least 300 feet high, sprang the stream, one 

 of the sources of the Tashkurgan river. It 

 was superb, but impassable, so turned back, 

 and indulged in a square meal in camp for 

 a change. 



Bower had great good -luck, having come 

 suddenly on another herd of Ovis, and dropped 

 three. Luckily he had ponies with him to col- 



