1843.] Trip to the Bulcha and Oonla Dhoora Passes. 8i 



about 11 o'clock it was 5 or 6 degrees higher. During the morning, 

 I endeavoured to obtain some information as to the country beyond 

 the Pass, but a number of people being present, I did not like to ask 

 such minute questions as would enable me to map down places with 

 any degree of accuracy, and the inattention of the Boteeas with refer- 

 ence to north and south, renders it difficult to obtain correct ideas of 

 localities from their information. Nagoo produced a map, of which I 

 may make something when I can get him quietly alone. At 2h. 50m. 

 I started to see the Sunchee Koond, a small sheet of water some dis- 

 tance up the glen of the Goree river, held in great repute as a place of 

 pilgrimage. I reached it 4h. 45m. travelling slowly along a gentle ascent, 

 intersected by numerous water-courses from the hill on right, (North,) 

 and found it to consist of a small triangular-shaped piece of greenish 

 water, perhaps 100 yards by 80 in its largest dimensions. I had no 

 means of ascertaining the depth. The mass of desolation, as described 

 at the source of the Goree, continues thus far up ; and how much farther 

 no one can, or will, inform me. The fissures hereabouts are narrow, in- 

 stead of being crater-like ; and the ice where visible is more nearly the 

 color of snow. On the opposite (South) side, huge accumulations of ice 

 and gravel are to be seen in the openings between the hills ; and gene- 

 rally, the sides of the hills in this vicinity do not appear so much cut up 

 by landslips as lower down. The weather was very cloudy, and bitterly 

 cold, with a few drops of rain occasionally. I had no opportunity 

 therefore of gaining a view further Westward, or on either side to any 

 extent, but I consider this glen would amply repay a few days devoted 

 to its inspection. Once on either side, I had a view of the old ice 

 high up on the hills ; and its light sea-green color, with strongly defined 

 and fantastical lines of shape (castles, stairs, &c. &c.) formed a very 

 pleasing and grand appearance. I returned to Milum at 6h. 25m. p. m., 

 and found matters progressing ; likely to ensure my departure upwards 

 to-morrow morning. 



The only weighing implement I have seen this side of Munsharee 

 was a steel-yard at Milum, and I was told that it came from Tibet, 

 where they are commonly used. 



28^ May — Up at 4h. 20m. a. m., ther. 49° in the sleeping room, 

 morning tolerably clear and mild. Much delay occurred in loading 

 the jooboos, but at last all was ready, and I started for Doong at 6h. 



