Note 81 — LEGENDS RELATING TO ANIMALS.[77]
Reading edition
This is undoubtedly the canis rutilans, a species of wild dog, which hunts in packs after the wild goat, so numerously found in the high mountains round Gilgit. The snow-ounce also pursues it. Dardistan, specially Hunza, is the paradise of the ibex, the wild sheep, including the ovis poli, and the red bear.