100 Note* on the Pangong take district of Ladahh. [No. 2, 



liuc of least resistance ; and npon that line the disruption would 

 take place and the pent up waters find an ex*. Where the bank 

 is sandy or clayey and covered with grass, it would be turned up 

 i„ the manner as shown in Fig. 4. In spots where the shore » 

 gravelly, the water seems to drive in the sand and stones before it 

 torn the bottom of the lake out upon the shore, and this being a 

 continuous annual action it has in some bays formed a hank quite 

 3 feet high Whether this phenomenon has been observed before on 

 other lakes I do not know ; it could not take place even here, did 

 not this lake Pangoug receive a large amount of water from the 

 east, with a determination to flow towards its old natural exit near 

 Lukoong. During summer, evaporation no doubt carries off a great 

 amount of the surplus water that drains into it, but in the winter 

 this must cease, and with its upper casing of ice the water to free iteelf 

 thus tears and roots up the bank in the curious manner above detailed. 

 During the whole time I spent on the shores of the 1 an- 

 gon- the only animal I saw was the Kyang, or wild ass of Tibet, 

 a few couple of these were grazing 'on the grassy maidans of the 

 northern shore. Of the birds, geese were plentiful in the stream 

 between the first and second lakes, and I saw many young broods. 

 The Brahmini goose, teal, a red-headed diver with white body, and 

 a very black plumaged duck, made up the water birds. There was 

 a great scarcity of the smaller birds, a sandpiper and wagtail were 

 occasionally seen on the shore. The large fish-eagle was plentiful 

 at Ote, attracted there by the fish which are seen for the first time 

 in the slightly brackish water flowing out of the ripper lake ; tins 

 lake is full of them, they much resemble the tench in shape and 

 colour, only somewhat longer in the body, and are covered with slime 

 like those fish. I had fortunately brought a rod, and all its et- 

 ceteras, and had near Numkum, in deep water under the rocks, a verj 

 good afternoon's sport, catching some five and twenty ; they ran abouf 

 a pound in weight, the largest I caught being about 4 lbs They 

 would rise at a fly when the surface was much rippled, and seeing 

 them rising at gnats, I managed to catch two with a small midge 

 flv the first artificial I fancy ever thrown on these waters; but their 

 extreme clearness is much against fly-fishing. The most paying bait 

 after all was dough ; this they took readily enough, and I might have 





