1843.] Trip to the Bulcha and Oonta Dhoora Passes. 95 



stones at ravens and two large vultures during the day, but he did 

 not project the stones with good aim, or to any considerable distance. 

 Perhaps he was a bad hand at it. The sling was made of plaited hair. 

 At 3h. 30m. I started northwards up a gentle ascent or two, (salagram 

 hillocks,) and then turned West over a series of most lovely undulations. 

 Some bare, (salagram hills,) others covered with the thorn bush, and 

 rills of water, with superb pasturage in the hollows between. This 

 style of country extends I know not how far, and might be ridden over 

 at a rapid pace. It is bounded south by the range of hills which I 

 noticed to the N. W. from Oonta Dhoora, particularly mentioning the 

 conical hill above Gertee, which is now nearly as far South as it then 

 appeared N. W. of me. These hills appear very steep and rocky, and 

 shew much snow on their north side. The breadth of this tract may be 

 two or three miles at most, and it is bounded north by the last range 

 before the Thibet plains, rising into bare steep precipices. I was led 

 here by a report that a wild horse had been seen in the morning, but it 

 subsequently appeared, that the man sent to look out, had seen only the 

 hind quarters of a " neaudh" and returned at once for fear of disturb- 

 ing the horse, as he thought it to be. The "neaudh" is like the burrai, 

 only much larger, with enormously thick horns and darkish colored 

 hind quarters. I had a creep of some two hours, after three of them, but 

 never got nearer than from a quarter to half a mile, and at 6 o'clock was 

 forced to give up, with these and a herd of 20 or 30 ahead of me. I 

 believed all along that they were large male burrai, but Nagoo and 

 Dhunsing, who remained behind with my telescope, swore they saw them 

 to be " neaudhs" distinctly, and certainly I observed the dark hind quar- 

 ters. Though I got no sport, I highly enjoyed this trip, though I suf- 

 fered from the awful cold wind along the crests in returning. Horse dung 

 (the people said of the wild animal) was abundant ; as were also foot 

 marks of the " chankoo" or some other beast of prey, nearly the size 

 of a leopard's foot print, and to the circumstance of these latter, 

 animals being about, Nagoo and Dhunsing attributed the unusual 

 scarcity of burrai in this favorite resort Occasionally I saw the place 

 where a burrai most probably had been killed. Got back to the 

 tents at 7h. 15m. very tired. Had some stewed and roasted burrai 's 

 flesh for dinner. The meat brown, and by no means badly flavored, 

 although this is the worst season. Having lived on dhall and rice 



