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mountain, and I had the glory of bagging him, a very fine old tom 
of Felis chaus, with teeth a good deal worn down. Oosrao said 
he knew this wild beast ate a Monaul every day, and I have no 
doubt he did, if he caught one. I never saw this species before 
or since at so high an elevation. It ranges all over India; and I 
once shot one on the banks of the Indus devouring a good-sized 
Rehoo fish, which I fancy it must have captured, as there were no 
fishermen about. This happened to be the only species of the 
feline race I shot during the expedition. 
We reached the Nakunda staging bungalow at dusk, after a 
good tramp of fifteen miles. We were a little fagged, and not a 
little ready for dinner. We found—worse luck—the bungalow full. 
Half a dozen officers en route from the interior to rejoin their 
regiments on the plains occupied all the limited accommodation 
the three rooms afforded, and it was too cold to sleep in the 
verandahs. Another, a supplementary bungalow, a couple of 
hundred yards off, was also fuliy tenanted, but after dinner I got 
a shake-down in an outhouse, and of course I had my own bedding. 
I found that one of the sportsmen was an old friend, W., of the 
Artillery; but we had not met for some years, and had much to 
hear and to tell. He had been into Kooloo vid Kangra, but had 
poor sport, having only bagged a few Burrhel and Tahr, and a 
couple of Musk Deer; but he showed me some skins, the first I 
saw out of a museum, of the Snow Pheasant, Tetraogallus, and 
kindly presented me with a pair when he found I was at my old 
employment of bird-collecting. He advised me to open out and 
re-poison them, as he had almost run out of preservative material, 
so I delegated the skins to Mr. Gomez, who made a very good job 
of them. One of the officers had a magnificent Thibetan mastiff 
with him, red in colour, and most savage (I was told) in temper, 
so I gave him a wide berth. 
It seemed to be rather a noisy party in the bungalow, and I 
was, on the whole, glad there was not sleeping accommodation for 
me, as I would have got little rest; as it was, being pretty tired, 
I was soon asleep, and never stirred till the morning cup of tea 
was brought; and as I had little in the toilet way to perform, I 
was soon afoot to see the sun rise behind a wall of snowy moun- 
tains, a scene-of surpassing grandeur, the rosy tints imparted to 
the peaks and the change to cold grey as they fell into shade 
contributing beauty to a panorama such as I had never before 
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