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the spring dripping on their heads was supposed 
to be peculiarly beneficial. These Kharganu peo¬ 
ple are Hindus; they are of poor physique, and, 
generally speaking, anjemic-looking and very 
dirty. Some of the women would be perhaps 
pretty, if not so unwholesome-looking, and in 
such sad need of soap and water. I saw a cer¬ 
tain number of black partridges round about our 
camp, and was told that there is a good deal 
of game lower down the river. 
We left Kharganu in heavy rain, and the first 
part of our march back, by a narrow path along 
the steep hillside above the left bank of the 
Ussein, was rather disagreeable. One of the 
ponies carrying our kit came down and slid 
some way down the slippery slope, getting rid 
of everything that was packed upon it in the 
process. Then there was a tiresome halt in the 
drenching rain while the pony was put on his 
legs again and the scattered load collected and 
repacked. Directly we climbed up the higher 
slopes away from the Ussein we left the rain 
behind us, and our dripping clothes steamed in 
the warm sunshine. 
My bag during this little trip was certainly 
light, my best day having been 25 pounds. On 
a light trout rod, however, these small mahseer 
give all the sport one can desire; and, consider¬ 
ing the unfayorable state of the water, I came 
away well satisfied that I had been able to get 
fish at all. 
OTTER AND CUBS FISHING. 
We had fished the pool hard all day long, and 
were taking a rest in one of our shelter huts on 
the Cumberland Derwent, when an otter and her 
three cubs swam into view, says G. W. M. in 
the Field. They had issued from the dense 
brushwood on the opposite bank, a hill of con¬ 
siderable height and rising clifif-like from the 
river. When we first obtained a clear view of 
the otters they were in the quiet backwater be¬ 
hind a huge stone which divides the water into 
two currents. While the cubs were here the 
mother dived, and in a moment or two reap¬ 
peared further down the stream. She whistled, 
and the cubs squeaked in reply like so many 
chaffinches reiterating in spring time their note 
of “spink,” “spink,” “spink.” No sooner had 
the bitch her offspring around her than she 
popped under the water again. This time she 
came up nearer the cubs. They were around 
her in a trice, clamoring apparently for food like 
so many-nestlings opening their mouths for the 
worm hanging from the parent bird’s beak. An 
angler’s helmet would have covered the four 
masks while the cubs were besieging the mother 
for food; but the quest had been unsuccessful, 
and further submarine voyages proved of no 
avail. The cubs’ outcry for a meal increased. 
Terriers could scarcely have worried her more 
when she came back from the deep. At last the 
mother became restive. It was clear that she 
found the cubs a hindrance to her fishing, so 
she drove them to the bank, treating any attempt 
of any of the cubs to deviate from the straight 
course much as a cur dog would the vagary of 
a wild Herdwick sheep. The cubs certainly un¬ 
derstood that they were forbidden the water, 
for they did not leave the bank, but ran along 
the water’s edge in whichever direction their 
mother swam. As the bitch quietly entered the 
water again a salmon rose within two yards of 
her. Instantly the otter dived. She reappeared 
empty-mouthed. The otter turned up-stream to 
fish. Three yards away a white trout leaped 
high out of the water, as white trout do when 
the river is low. The otter disappeared before 
the fish struck the water. Again the otter had 
to own itself foiled. The otter continued to fish 
for half an hour, but without success. Mean¬ 
time the cubs had been scurrying up and down. 
When, however, the mother reached the head of 
the stream she heard the squeak of a cub fully 
150 yards further down the stream. She darted 
a glance at the two cubs nearly opposite to her 
and then swam with almost incredible swiftness 
to the straying one. In a minute the family was 
re-united. The fishing started at 4:30, and it 
lasted an hour, the appearance of a collier with 
a terrier bringing the interesting scene to a 
close. Two things that struck the observers 
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