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during the day, and being obtained only by snares at night, when 
they come down from the mountains to browse in the 'valleys/' 
***** 
“ We saw many large herds of the kiang, and I made numerous 
attempts to bring one down, but with invariably bad success. 
Some were wounded, but not sufficiently to check their speed; and 
they quickly bounded up the rocks, where it was impossible to 
follow. They would afford excellent sport to four or five men 
well mounted, but a single individual has no chance. The kiang 
allows his pursuer to approach no nearer than five or six hundred 
yards ; he then trots off, turns, looks, and waits until you are 
almost within distance, when he is off again. If fired at, he is 
frightened, and scampers off altogether. The Chan-Kan people 
sometimes catch them by snares, sometimes shoot them. From all 
1 have seen of the animal, I should pronounce him to be neither a 
horse nor an ass. His shape is as much like one as the other ; but 
his cry is more like braying than neighing. The prevailing colour 
is a light reddish-chestnut ; but the nose, the under part of the 
lower jaw and neck, the belly and legs, are white ; the mane is 
dun, and erect ; the ears are moderately long ; the tail bare, and 
reaching a little below the hock ; the height is about fourteen 
hands. The form, from the fore to the hind leg and feet to a level 
with the back, is more square than that of an ass; his back is less 
straight, and there is a dip behind the withers and rounding of the 
crupper which is more like the shape of the horse ; his neck is 
also more erect and arched than that of the ass. He is, perhaps, 
more allied to the quaghi, but is without stripes, except a reported 
one along each side of the back to the tail. These were distinctly 
seen on a foal, but were not distinguished in the adults. 
“ Whilst engaged in the pursuit of the kiang, I came occa- 
sionally upon wild goats; they were rather higher than the sheep, 
long in leg, and spare in body, with a light head and neck, and 
curved horns of a moderate size. They bounded off, as I ap- 
proached, exactly like deer.” 
***** 
“ At the same time that my young friend was despatched to 
Piti, I undertook an excursion to Dras, and left Le for that pur- 
pose on the 10th of June. The sowing of wheat had been finished 
at the end of May, and the most forward plants were now five 
inches high. Peas and beans were also above the ground. 
Lucerne was only just bursting where the soil was dry, but where 
it was well watered it was full and high. In Ladakh this grass is 
almost an aquatic ; though in India it perishes if long under water 
in the rainy season. It is also worthy of remark, that in this 
