The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains

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Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including some inconsistencies of hyphenation. Some changes have been made. They are listed at the end of the text.
THE DIARY OF A HUNTER FROM THE PUNJAB TO THE KARAKORUM MOUNTAINS.
LONDON: LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS; NORWICH: HENRY W. STACY, HAYMARKET.
M.DCCC.LXIII.
NORWICH: PRINTED BY HENRY W. STACY, HAYMARKET.
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.
Browne. Lith. Norwich.

Possianah, Pir Panjal,
29th April , 1860.
An attempt at a Diary, with the intention of recording my adventures and experiences in an excursion contemplated in Cashmere and adjacent countries—that of Ladâk being a principal object—during six months' leave from my duties at Amritsir.