150 Narrative of a Journey to Clio Lagan, fyc. [Aug. 



in the matter of the tails here, for the field rats have none that I could 

 see ; the ground was intersected in all directions with the burrows of 

 these animals, and I saw numbers of them, looking like diminutive 

 Guinea pigs, but of the ordinary mouse colour, 



Thermometer at noon 45°; boiled at 186°; elevation of Amlang 

 15,250 feet (about the same as Chujia-Tol). In the sun at noon the 

 thermometer rose to 68°. 



Our course from Chujia-Tol to this had been somewhere about east 

 north-east. We now turned eastward, leaving Amlang over the low 

 hills on the right side of the valley. A mile or two of undulating ground 

 brought us into another valley similar to Amlang, through the opening 

 of which, north-westward, was seen an isolated cluster of remarkably 

 bare red-colored hills, Chulda, not far east of Gyanima, and the 

 road thence to Gangri passes under them. In the opposite direction 

 the valley was closed by hills over which the top of Momonangli came 

 in sight again. A mile further on we entered a third valley or a second 

 branch of the last, like the others, but open at both ends and I ob- 

 served a slight rise across the flat bottom dividing the drainage into 

 Gyanima water north-westward, from that into Rakas Tal eastward. 

 We here came upon the western high road leading from Pruang to 

 Gartokh, a well beaten track of men and cattle 30 feet wide. The 

 eastern road goes between the Lakes, via Barka, Gangri, &c. A mile 

 down, the valley divided into two branches going eastward and south- 

 eastward, the road following the former, and we were proceeding that 

 way when on turning the corner of a hill that separated the two vallies, 

 we found ourselves entering suddenly into a large Tol full of sheep and 

 cattle with encampments of shepherds. The Bhdtias recoiled in alarm, 

 and we turned back into the other branch of the valley to the south- 

 east, but finding this to end in nothing, except hills, a mile up, we 

 endeavoured to regain the proper road by crossing the hill side if possi- 

 ble ahead of the Bung. On gaining the ridge, however, we saw the 

 Tol still occupied by the shepherds, as far as could be traced, so we 

 continued skirting along the top, till we were brought up by the sudden 

 termination of the ridge, in a passage that communicated with another 

 valley, also full of flocks and shepherds, close under our right, we 

 were in rather a critical position here, between two fires, and the Bho- 

 tias vented their disgust in loud complaints against me for bringing 



