90 Trip to the Bulcha and Oonta Dhoora Passes. [No, 134. 



said to abound hereabouts. " Rheow is the talismanic word to make 

 a jooboo quicken his pace, though a whip has better effect. Safe as 

 they are, my jooboo has fallen three times with me ; but no where in 

 very dangerous places, and no harm done. 



Snow-beds are always most difficult at the sides, the middle being 

 generally firm and hard. 



Pace to-day one and half mile an hour, or possibly a little more on 

 the whole. Yesterday one and quarter to one and half mile ; and the 

 day before about two and half miles an hour. 



Booteea tents all blanket, or upper part blanket and lower part 

 cloth. A strip of about six inches wide is left open along the top to let 

 smoke out, the rains never being heavy enough to cause inconveni- 

 ence from such an opening. Dhun Sing tells me, that just now it is so 

 hot below Dhapa, that sealing wax melts if carried on the person 

 during the day !!!(?) The appearance of hills looking at them from 

 South and from North is widely different. Looking from the South, 

 you see only the South face of ravines, &c, on which hardly a trace of 

 snow will be visible. But looking from the North, you see only the 

 North slopes ; and these are generally covered with snow, giving the 

 entire hill the appearance of being so covered. 



At Topee Doonga this morning, I saw a tolerable number of larks, or 

 some small bird of this sort ; also one or two of the small purple black 

 birds, a specimen of which I unfortunately failed to procure. At Ching- 

 noo, several choughs were flying about ; their call exactly like the cat- 

 call used by young blackguards at home. At Chingnoo, were numer- 

 ous burrows of the " pfheaf." This animal is described as smaller than a 

 dog, of a reddish colour, sits up at the mouth of his burrow, and remains 

 dormant in the winter. It must be a squirrel ; much to my vexation I 

 failed in even getting a sight of one. At Chingnoo 2h. 30m. p. m 

 ther. 68° in shade of tent, boiled at 186 J or 187° elevation (by Barron,) 

 15,759 to 15,450 feet. 



30^ May. — At 3h. 25m. p. m., the servants started for Lufkhel, and 

 I went with Nagoo across the Chingnoo stream, and along its west 

 bank to look for burral. After some time, I saw three on the hill side, a 

 long way off and far up ; had a long sneak, but found the hill side so 

 steep, that when within fifty yards of the burral, I could not depress 

 my gun sufficiently to fire at them standing under a rock. They 



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