4 i6 A JOURNEY TO LAKE 



patches of fnow {till upon the ground, and fplafhes of water in, which 

 the feet funk eonfiderably ; although I give our Kiti friends credit Cos 

 detaining us as long as poffible, I neverthelefs think we fhould have- 

 found fome difficulty in paffing- thefe plains ten days ago, from their 

 then fwampy (late. At 5400 paces, leave fome fnow in a hollow dole to 

 the left At 5840 paces, come to another heap of (tones, and defcend 

 rapidly along a ridge between a water-courfe, now dr.y, v to the right, and 

 one to the left, having a itream running down its bed. At 6coo paces 

 defcend. At 6g6$ paces, encamp on the lefc bank of the -Chafiu river, 

 the fource of which bears S. 70 W. and fprings from the northern 

 bafe of the great Himalaya ridge. The bed of the Ckagla river is 

 about the fixth of a mile broad, pebbly and fleet, with feveral fmall but, 

 rapid currents running down it. The rivers tothe South of the great 

 Himalaya, ridge are narrow, from the fides of the hills being very deep 

 and tlieirbafes forming a narrow angle with little valley. Thofe which 

 rife on the northern bafe of the fame ridge have broad flit channels, 

 the water draining into them more flowly from the table-land, and the> 

 rnore gradual and gentle jflopes of tjie hills., 



A hunter, whom we have long employed unfuccefsfully, this even- 

 ing brought in a female B,araL It was about the height of a hog deer,* 

 (Gervus porcinus) with its legs and feet much like the fheep, and fome 

 fimilarity in the head, but the ears were thinner and narrower. It had. 

 eight teeth and two horns which curved lightly backwards. Its hair 

 was very hard, and on theneek clofe tothe {kin grew fomefine wool Its 

 general colour wasalh or grey, but it had its fhins and tail darker than 

 the red, and under the belly it. was nearly white. It had four ftomachs 

 and a gall bladder ; a veficular taenia was in the mefentery, but I broke 

 it in endeavouring to extracl it. Were it not fanciful to fuppofe a 



• Seems to be Qvs Atr.non. C. 



