evidence: At Kio Richardson was lucky to shoot a wild yak, which we had difficulty in recovering owing to the religious prejudices of the shikari. Descending the Kiogad, we travelled via Sangcha on the Balcha Dhura route, to Lapthal; here we were fortunate enough to shoot a 27-inch bharal and to pick up three other good heads. The numerous camping- grounds along this route are decorated with bharal heads, and at Sangcha we found a single ovis ammon horn. These had probably been obtained from beasts caught in snow-drifts and killed for their meat. At Lapthal, where we halted for five days, the sky was generally overcast and we had some snow which drove the game down. Here Richardson got a badly poisoned knee from a thorn of a small bush, common in these parts. For a time there was a serious danger of gangrene setting in, but it answered to treatment, and he was at last able to proceed, mounted on a spare mule. While halted here, we picked up numerous ammonite fossils, which we also found in smaller quantities later at Rimkin and at the approaches to the Bala Hoti pass*. Their presence would seem to indicate that we were near the junction of the sedimentary rocks and the gneissic mass of the northern Himalaya.