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innumerable hedges one meets at every step, which tear one’s 
clothes dreadfully when out shooting. 
5th.— Taghar to Panamick. —More hare shooting this morning. 
Breakfasted on the road ata village called Yulkam, after leaving 
which we had to cross a small hill apparently rising in the valley. 
Passed many large alluvial fans, some of them extending about 
half way across the valley. Panamick is the largest village in 
this valley, and is surrounded by extensive cultivation, deci- 
dedly picturesque. ‘The following birds were noticed to-day: 
Raven, Hill Pigeon, Hoopoe, Teal (Q. erecca), Actitis hypoleucus, 
Redshank (7. calidris), Magpie, Chicore, Sparrow, Crag Martin, 
several species of Phylloscopi, a Wheatear (Sazicola atrogularis), 
Sylvia curruca in the Tamarisk jungle, and Ruticilla rufiventris 
near the little streams. 
6¢h.—Halted to-day at Panamick. In the afternoon I went 
out shooting and had capital sport: bagged five hares and two 
chicores. There is a hot spring near our camp here, to which a 
great number of our followers went to bathe; temperature of 
the water 134°F. 
7th.—Panamick to Changlung—about 12 miles—We got 
some capital hare shooting this morning after leaving 
Panamick. About thirty Bhots were collected to beat for 
us, and we placed two of our men as Jemadars over these 
Tibetans to make them do their work properly. The coolies 
formed a long line and were made to walk along steadily 
through the jungle, beating the bushes with sticks as ‘they went 
along “and making a hideous shouting. We each took one end 
of the line and walked about thirty ‘yards ahead of the beaters. 
The hares were numerous and wonderfuly lively, shooting past 
like arrows, among the bushes and stones, and generally making 
towards the hill to our right when started. I took the left of 
the line, near the stream, “and managed to bag five hares and a 
chicore before we reached our breakfast place. Before reaching: 
Changlung we crossed the Sassér stream—a_ tributary torrent 
running out through a deep gorge to our right into the Nubra 
river. “Chanelung is a very “small place—only about a couple 
of families live here—and the vegetation about it is very scant. 
It is the last inhabited place we “shall see for the next twenty 
days’ march at least. From this not only all the food we shall 
require for the next fortnight or so has to be carried on for us, 
but even fuel, and grass “for the horses. The only thing we 
can be sure of finding in the utterl¥ barren region we “shall 
have to cross is—water! From our camp here very lofty 
snow-capped mountains are visible at no great distance, appa- 
rently closing up the north end of the Nubra Valley. 
8th.—As soon as we left Changlung this morning we began 
to ascend the hill to our right, ¢. e., ‘the range bounding ‘the 
