Chapter I: Preface

It is hoped that the circumstances under which this volume appears may be considered such as to excuse its imperfections. It is--with some omissions and completions of sentences but with hardly a verbal alteration--the copy of a journal, not written with a view to publication but simply as a private record, kept up from time to time as opportunity offered in the midst of the scenes which it describes. The hand that wrote it is now in the grave. And it is solely in compliance with the wishes of many relatives and friends who were anxious to obtain such a memorial of one whom they loved, that it is now committed to the press by a brother.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER. PAGE.

I. PREPARATIONS AND EQUIPMENTS 1

II. TO SIRINUGGUR 7

III. SIRINUGGUR--TO THE WURDWAN 28

IV. SHIKAR IN THE WURDWAN 48

V. DITTO 67

VI. DITTO 89

VII. SOOROO PASS TO LADÂK 109

VIII. LADÂK 135

IX. LEH 157

X. TO THE SHAYAK 176

XI. TO THE KARAKORUM 196

XII. SUGHEIT 225

XIII. THE YÂK 249

XIV. THE RETURN 264

XV. LEH AND LADÂK 285

XVI. THE BARA SING 302

XVII. CASHMERE 324