100 Trip to the Bukha and Oonta Dhoora Passes. [No. 134. 



watchful. Feeling fatigued from yesterday's hard work, and a very 

 bad night's rest, I mounted my jooboo, and sent the shikaree and boy 

 before to look out ; about 8 o'clock one of them returned, having seen 

 four burral. I went on and saw them on a bare hill side, took a long 

 creep to get near them, and found no trace of them when I came up. 

 The boy had, however, seen two go up the hill, and two over the ridge 

 to some cliffs in advance, just East of Chingoor. I therefore ascend- 

 ed again over a rough landslip of hard stones to the crest of the 

 cliff, which was formed of sheets of yellow sandstone and loose masses 

 of the same. This stone so exactly resembled the color of the burral, 

 that I saw nothing ; and I was going to look further over, when my 

 boy gave a whistle to recall me. He had seen numerous burral lying 

 about ninety yards in front of me, but the whistle startled them, and 

 the first I saw was then jumping up. I took the best shot I could 

 at one running, and broke his hind leg well up, but did not stop him. 

 The noise alarmed four others that were lying down a little to my 

 right, not fifty yards off, and here another barrel would probably have 

 ensured me a certain hit ; but before I could get my double gun, one 

 barrel of which had ball, they were a good 100 yards off, and my shot 

 missed. The herd, consisting of from twenty to twenty-five or thirty, 

 now slowly ascended the ridge of hill to my left, and as I had no 

 chance of seeing them again, I took four or five long shots at them 

 with my rifle as fast as it could be loaded. I might have killed one, 

 as for two shots the distance was not above 200 to 250 yards ; but my 

 bullets went only very near, and I could do no damage. All search af- 

 ter the wounded one was ineffectual from the terrific nature of the 

 ground, and a little blood was all the result. My shikaree quite 

 frightened me by some of the sheets of rock he ascended and descend- 

 ed, until I called him away. Some two hours were lost after these 

 burral, and it was 12h. 50m. before we reached the crest above (South 

 of) Chingoor. Thence a quick descent down Kalee Mutteea Churhai 

 to Doldunkur Nuddee by lh. 35m., thence along the Nuddee to its junc- 

 tion with the Lonka, which latter being much swollen, we halted here 

 (where the Lama was on 29th ultimo,) at 2 p. m. instead of going on 

 to Topee Doonga, which was 18 minutes' travelling to the West, 

 though here grass was very scarce and wood not procurable. The 

 snow in the Nuddee had melted very much since I passed up, and 





