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CHAPTER III 



MAKKHOR SHOOTING 



Start for marklior ground — Tragic tale of " Bliup Singh's Parhi" — 

 My shooting establishment — My first stalk — Dangerous ground 

 — Firing down a precipice — A good shot — Bag my first markhor 

 — Another hunt — Mysterious markhor, not approachable — Leave 

 Garai nala — Weak-eyed Khi'ishal Khan — Bad road — A travelling 

 bear — Kashmiri system of road-making — The Maharajah's sappers 

 and miners — A heart-breaking road — Two sappers of the Kashmir 

 Engineers in very bad case — Ramghat and its bridge — The guard 

 in charge — Pass a bad night — The Buuji plain — Good iirin ground 

 — Biinji — The commandant of the fort — He makes a lucky mis- 

 take — Cross the Indus — Reach Damot village — A pleasant spot — 

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CHAPTER IV 



mIrkhoii .shooting — {continued) 



Village of Damot — Compulsory labour — March up the valley — Good 

 signs of markhor — One killed by leopard — Theory regarding 

 horns — A night out — A black bear's family — A fatiguing and 

 useless ascent — Game not visible — Meet a brown bear, but lose 

 my chance — Sight a markhor at last — The stalk impossible — A 

 tramp of thirteen hours — Find a fifty-two inch horn— Marklior 

 get the upper hand — An extemporised observatory — Begin a stalk 

 of twenty-four hours — Failure at first — Great exposure — A bad 

 night under a rock — Hard work again — Make bad shooting — A 

 last and luck}' shot — Bag a forty-seven incher — A "halaling" 

 dispute — The theory of "halaling" — Dimensions of markhor 

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CHAPTER V 



MARKHOR shooting — {continued) 



Begin another hunt — Sharafa kills a snake — Eagles' chase after a 

 snow-cock — Markhor tactics — "Watching game — Hard work and 

 no reward — Mirza Khan in fault — Lose a splendid chance — 

 Legend of the Major and the Saint of Ghor — Change our ground 

 — Sight game — Our cautious (and ridiculous) tactics — Bag the 

 markhor at last — A candid confession — An undisputed "haldl" 

 — Mirza Khan's capacity for meat — Another shooting-box of 

 Mirza Khan's— Spend a night in a watercourse — A bit of 



