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 The Ovis Amman — CJhaits — Tibetan Antelope — Sudden Varia- 

 tions of Temperature — Tibetan Sand-grouse — Tailless Eat or 

 Lagomys — Alpine Hare — Tibet Eavine Deer — Hotch-Potch — 

 Sulphur-mines — Chumouraree Lake — Wilderness — Birds — 

 Tibet Partridge — Ibex 248 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Foxes of the Tibetan Plateau — Leopards — ^Discomforts of the Kegion 

 — Return — White Marmot — Old Acquaintances — Degradation 

 going on ia the Ladakh Gorges — Scenery, and Change in 

 Fauna and Flora — Suru Valley and its Enormous Glacier — 

 Glacier-action — Scenery in the Northern Ranges of Cashmere 

 — Wurdwun VaUey again — Snowstorm — Snow Partridge — 

 Varied and Beautiful Scenery — Start from PUgam after Deer — 

 Unsuccessful Expedition — Birds — Flora — Rain — Bears and 

 their Habits — Wretchedness of the Natives — The Sporting- 

 bag — Return to Serinuggur — Departure for Eawul Pindee . 287 



CHAPTEE XIV. 



Scavenger Animals : their Utility — Hyena and Jackal Grave- 

 diggers — Swine — Dogs — Sheep : their Disgusting Mode of 

 Feeding — ^Measled Pork — ^Tapeworm — Antiquity of the Dog — 

 Climate of Rawul Pindee — Degradation of AUuvium — Storms 

 — ^Heats of Midsummer : Effects on Europeans — ^Agency of 

 Storms and Removal of Organic Remains : their Relation to 

 Fossil Remains — Moonrise on the Himalayas — ^Death of Cap- 

 tain Colby by Tiger — Departure for Peshawur — ^Elephant : 

 Traits of Character — Peshawur— Lawless Natives — Murders — 

 Khyber Pass — Scenery — Dangers of Travelling — Mammals and 

 Birds — ^British Birds — ^Migrations — Conclusion . . .307 



