248 WANDEKINGS OF A 



GHAPTEE XII. 



Return to Punjaub — Eiver Scenery, and its Ornithology — Day Haze or Mist — 

 Lakes of Cashmere — Visit to the Heir- Apparent — ^A Frightful Accident — 

 Maury's Theory of Monsoons— Return to the Valley — Start for Ladakh — 

 Scenery — Bultul Pass— Marmots — Tartars — Birds— Plants — Scenery — 

 Buddhist Temples — Birds — Tibetan Magpie, its Allies — Redstarts — 

 Familiar Birds — Discovery of a New Species of Mountain Finch — 

 Lameru — Jolly Lama Priests — ^Wild Sheep — Natives — Leh — Birds — Yak, 

 and Wild Quadrupeds of the Region — Tame Animals — Tang-Lang Pass — 

 Plains of Rupshoo — Nomadic Life — Oppressive Sensations at High Eleva- 

 tions—The Dog of Tibet— Salt Lakes and WUd Fowl— "Wild Ass— 

 Burrel, or Wild Sheep — The Ovis ammon — Chaits — Tibetan Antelope — 

 Sudden Variations of Temperature — Tibetan Sand Grouse — Tailless Eat 

 or Lagomys — ^Alpine Hare — Tibet Ravine Deer — Hotch-Potch — Sulphur 

 Mines — Chumouraree Lake — ^Wilderness — Birds — Tibet Partridge — Ibex. 



On the 11th of June, with many regrets, I turned my steps 

 towards Eawul Pindee, HaJkett accompanying me as far as 

 Baramula. The day was hot, but our boats were well thatched, 

 and we sat under the chopper all day, admiring the scenery 

 as we dropped down the river. The skeletons in their cages 

 at the entrance to the city looked if anything more grim than 

 before. The mid-day haze, so often observed on the plains of 

 India, was very apparent on the surrounding mountains. In 

 the Punjaub it makes its appearance about nine a.m. like a 

 slight mist. I have seen the clearest of mornings become in 

 an hour so hazy that objects then distinctly visible were 

 shrouded in gloom by mid-day. By some authorities emana- 

 tions from the soil are said to be the cause, whilst certain 



