222 Notes on Moorcroft' s Travels in Ladakh, fyc. [No. 147. 



The female of the yak is called hrimo in Kunawaree, and dimo in 

 Bhotee. It is not used for hybrid produce, and as it is said not to live 

 in Upper K una war, very few are to be seen. 

 Yarkand Ass. — Yarkand Mare. Hill Ass. — Hill Mare. 



Gheareh. Deh. 



Bring from 1 60 to 200 Rs. in Garo. Worth about 50 Rs. in Garo. 



The female in either case superior to the male. 



The mules are chiefly purchased by the Lassa traders. It is not 

 considered proper by the Tibetans of Lassa to breed mules, and if by 

 chance one is born among their herds, some purifying ceremonies are 

 gone through by the owner. 



The subjoined table shows the ordinary price of animals of a fair qua- 

 lity in Upper Kunawar, together with the loads they usually carry: — ■ 



Animals. 



Price. 



Load. 



Ram, .... 



He-Goat, 



Ass,.... .... .... .... 



Mule, 



Poney, 



Zho, 



3 



4 5 

 10 16 

 50 80 

 50 60 

 16 17 



16 to 201bs. 



16 to 201bs. 



641bs. 

 1281bs. 

 1281bs. 

 12blbs. 



A man carries 641bs. as a fair average burden. 



Wild Animals — The Ass. — In these elevated regions wild horses, 

 keang ; asses, goorkhar ; and yaks, dong ; besides innumerable hares 

 and deer, are plentiful. — Gerard, p. 117. 



The keang is, I think, the only animal of the kind found along the 

 Upper Indus, or indeed in Tibet generally, and it is an ass, not a horse. 

 Turner (204-5) and Moorcroft, (II, 295 and 443,) evidently saw but 

 one animal, notwithstanding the different designations used by the latter 

 in his account of his journey in 1812. The descriptions given by 

 Moorcroft seem to be accurate, excepting that the tail is terminated by 

 a tuft of long hair, and that there is one stripe only along the back, 

 and none across the shoulders. I procured two skins of the keang, and 

 sent them to Dr. Jameson, Officiating Superintendent of the Botanical 

 Gardens at Seharanpore. 



There are wild yaks north and east of Garo, but none in the dis- 

 tricts visited by Captain Gerard, and I doubt the existence of deer, 

 properly so called, and of the numbers innumerable of wild goats and 

 sheep, which do however exist in small herds in these parts. 



To be continued. 



