The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-10-10
His Sensations Amid the Mighty, Awe Inspir-
ing Asiatic Peaks.
WILD BEASTS AND BEAUTIFUL
FISHES THAT WOULD
Make the HiIarity Club Turn
Green With Envy.
THAT ''B0Yp WHO COULD STEAL WITH
THE SKILL OF AHERMANN
And Make a BusheI Of Potatoes From q
Pint.
Playing on the Ice in the Tropics.

To the Editor Of the New DOMINION:
ALLAnABAD, India, August 3D.
Although we had taken quite littl
Of canned provisions with us, yet q
times we found ourselves quite har
; pressed for food. Once the "boy
after having gone through two G
three villages in search of potatoe.
rice and moorgee chicken return
ed empty handed, and standing be
fore us he placed the palms of hi
hands together, the oriental way Q
expressing perfect helpfulness sal
sahib, kya, karum. Master, wha
can / do now?
Once in passing through the las
village where it was possible to oh
tain potatoes our "boy" laid in
small supply for our needs farthe
on. He certainly did not buy over
dozen little potatoes. Yet they bel,
out wonderfully. 1t was almost tel
days before the last one disappeared
1t became an interesting subject 70
discussion, after a while, and W
came to our meals with good dea
Of curiosity, wondering if those pota
toes would still appear They Taste,
so marvelously that we could no
help asking ourselves, if at last w
should like the disciples of old "tak
up of the fragments that remained
twelve baskets full"
Another time when far in tn,
mountain it seemed utterly impossi
BILE to get a chicken, milk, rice, o
even goat. We had almost decided
that we would have to fast over Sun
day and Monday until we could ge
to another village. Things looked
dark indeed, but just before nigh
closed upon us "lhe boy" returned
from distant village with a smil,
all over his brown face and hal
grown kid in his hand. We hat
in the meantime succeeded in bag
ging two fine large pheasants so W
changed the fast into feast Fo
about fifteen days we tasted nothin!
in the way of bread but some nativ
made cakes which in color and tast
are wholly unlike anything else Iv'
ever eaten. But which if well mad
and especially when eaten with hone,
are not bad by any means.
The animals of the Himalayas ar
varied and interesting. But first o
all l must speak of the fine fish w
saw. The mountain streams ar
wonderfully clear and transparent
You can see the smallest object clear
ly at great depth. This extrem,
transparency renders their deptl
very .deceiving as we proved once t.
our entire satisfaction. AS we fol
lowed the course ofone of these mag
nificent streams we could see beau
tifnl fish of all sizes up to three fee
in length darting hither and thither
Silvery flashes every little while il
the stream betokened the presence o
the sportsman's favorite-the trout
1t would have cheered the hearts o
the Hilarity Club and sent the bloot
thrilling through their veins will
unwanted vigor could they only hav,
seen some of these speckled beauties
We borrowed line and hook and il
less than ten minutes landed fif
teen FOUNDER
There were large birds of brillian
plumage in great abundance. Blu
these birds are beautiful until the.
try to sing, then you are disappoint
ed and wish they had kept thei
mouths shut The wild animal,
that infest the mountains are no les.
varied than the birds. They go al
the way from the harmless jackal tt
the fierce tiger. Though the tiger doe
not go very near the snow line, TIL,
leopard is found in large numbers
especially in the lower ranges of tn,
mountains They rarely attack man
but they are death on dogs. A dos
is delicious morsel to a leopard ant
he prefers it to anything else.
Bears are. also abundant, and oftel
fierce Tie natives told US som
rather interesting bear stories ant
wanted us to go out on regula
bear hunt. But we assured then
we had come with peaceable inten
tions and that unless the bea
should be disposed to take unbecom
ing liberties with us, we would no
modest him. Our men tod US tina
they had seen bear or tw
on the way, but we did not get sigh
OF any
One evening just at dark GU
hoy" who had been skinning a goa
behind the bungalow came runnin
all out of breath, and trembling fror
head to foot with fright, land as soon a
he could get breath enough to speal
be said sahib, jangle men ek she
hal sahib. There is a lion out her
) in the jungle. We went out an
could hear low soft noise tina
, came from some sort OF wild beas
not more than 200 yards distan
But it was too dark to see. 1t +,
manned lurking around most Of tf
night, and seemed anxious to es
our pony or some of the men, "
could not tell which. But we sa
nothing of it the next day. Nor di
it return again on the followin
night. The native word sher ma
mean either lion, tiger or panthe
From the description they gave i
! we concluded that our nocturnal vi
!. itor was species of panther.
BY far the most common sigl
was the monkey. II was ever,
where ID great troops, In small nun
bers, in groups Of half dozen. b,
: it might be seen almost all the Tim
They would climb up some stct
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