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high crags of loose rock, one on each side the stream. Up one of these 

 the road led, and after breakfast, most of the other people having 

 gone on, the Khidmutgars began ascending, and we moved out to allow 

 the tent to be packed up, when a crash above announced a fragment 



had given way. Every one immediately fled for safety. S and 



H took shelter under the face of the rock, and I being farther 



out, and seeing the stones coming towards me, ran off to the edge of the 

 stream; we three escaped untouched, being more lucky than an unfor- 

 tunate Mussalchee of H 's, whom I saw struck by two stones on 



the head. The first seemed only to stagger him, the second, a large 

 flat one, struck him with great force, and hurled him down the rock, 

 about twenty feet. On being taken up, he was found to have a slight 

 cut on the forehead, and a dreadful fracture behind. His legs were 

 a little cut, which I believe was the only effects of the fall. He was 

 alive, but speechless, and apparently senseless : we resolved to return 

 with him to Jungee, as the road to Kanum was long and difficult. 



We accordingly put him into S 's dooly, binding up his head as 



well as possible, and hastened back. On arriving at the village, three 

 Lamas came to look at the man, one of them was a venerable looking 

 person, with long dark hair and beard, and dressed in red. They 

 consulted their books, which were printed with wooden blocks, and 

 they seemed inclined to do the man good if they knew. All they 

 could make of it, however, was that the man was destined to die : no 

 great discovery, considering that a large piece of his scull was de- 

 pressed upon the brain. He was placed in an empty house, and my 

 brother's Bheestie and another man attended upon him. We sent to 

 Kanum for our bed-clothes and some wearing apparel, which arrived 

 before bed-time ; and one of the servants cooked us some chapa- 

 thies and dal, which, with a little brandy and water, and a few raisins, 

 constituted our dinner. We heard that my Khidmutgar was wound- 

 ed in the leg and foot, but only slightly. My brother's dog was also 

 just touched, and these were the only casualties : a wonderful thing, 

 considering the number of persons who were underneath the moun- 

 tain, and ascending the road, which after going forwards a few yards 

 to the left, makes a sudden turn back to the right, and sweeps round 

 the brow of the mountain. There were besides forty or fifty people 

 with loads on their backs, who passed the same way during the day, 



