Big Game of Mongolia and Tibet 



at a time hunting for my horses, and I finally 

 made it a point to shoot all such animals 

 that came near my camp ; though I had a 

 strong dislike to killing them — they looked 

 so like tame asses — and I never could see any 

 sport in it, though the meat was good enough 

 — much better than yak flesh. 



The hulan is very fleet and has wonderfully 

 acute hearing, but it possesses too great curi- 

 osity for its own safety ; it will generally circle 

 around the hunter if not shot at, and come 

 quite near to have a look at the strange, 

 unknown animal. 



It is said that wild camels and horses are 

 found in some of the remoter corners of south- 

 western Turkestan and south of Lob-Nor, and 

 specimens of them have been secured by 

 Prjevalsky, Grijimailo and Littledale. The 

 question is now whether these animals are 

 domesticated ones run wild, or really wild 

 varieties. Naturalists will probably disagree 

 on this point. For the time being these ani- 

 mals are too little known for me to express 

 an opinion on the subject, and, not having 

 seen any, I can add nothing to what has been 

 written on the subject. 



My own shooting in Mongolia and Tibet 

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