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Notes of a trip from Simla to the Spiti Valley. [No. 5, 
ing the day, and the thermometer in my tent went down towards 
morning to 30.° 
2J st .—Kecross the pass to camping ground in the Parilanghi river. 
Temperature of the air at the top of the pass 56°. Much fresh snow 
had fallen since first crossing it, the glare of which was very unplea¬ 
sant. 
22nd, Kiba. 
23rd, Chikim .—Having procured fresh coolies, cross the stream 
separating Kiba from Chikim and devote a day to the examination 
of the neighbourhood. Chikim is situated in a broad valley partially 
cultivated and well watered. The barley crops are now either ripen¬ 
ing or being gathered in ; at Kiba they were still green in some 
places, but heavy in the ear. 
24 th, Ki, 12,500 ft.*—Halt a day hereto examine the neighbourhood. 
The monastery adjoining is one of the most picturesque buildings I 
have ever seen, or rather group of buildings, perched on the summit 
of an isolated peak a couple of hundred feet above the plain, and 
protected behind by a stupendous limestone cliff, some fourteen hun¬ 
dred feet high. 
2 Qth, Kuling .—Cross the Spiti river four miles below Ki, where 
the rocky chasm through which it rushes like an arrow, is spanned by 
a bridge formed of two trees, on which are laid wicker hurdles which, 
though rather shaky, will support a horse or yak. 
27 th, Chang, 11,508 ft.*—A tedious march, road in parts very steep 
and bad. In the small stream flowing into the Spiti river below 
Kuling, found a species of Limnaea adhering beneath stones, the 
same as noticed at Hanka ; and near the camp, among river rejecta¬ 
menta, a pupa and a couple of helices ,* small but very abundant. 
These are the only land mollusca noticed in the valley, but they were 
nowhere found in a living state. In a small feeder of the Spiti near 
the camp saw some small fish, long and eel-like, sheltering under 
stones, but could not capture any. Temperature of water 43°. 
29 th, Milcim, 11,762 ft.* A rather pretty village situated on the 
west bank of the Pin river, a little better than eight miles from its 
mouth. 
30 th, Muth, 1 2,306 ft.*— (Mud of Cunningham). Cross the Pin river 
a little below Mikim. Like all rivers flowing from glaciers, this 
* Pupa muscorum, Helix fulva, II. pulchella. 
