IBEX SHOOTING IN THE THIAN SHAN 

 MOUNTAINS 



In the late winter of 1908, Chew and I decided 

 on a shooting trip in the following summer to the 

 Thian Shan Mountains, in Chinese Turkestan, 

 where we knew there were many ibex carrying the 

 largest horns to be found anywhere with a chance 

 for sheep and wapiti; the sheep being the far- 

 famed Ovis poli. The State Department had our 

 passports vised for us at Pekin thus giving us the 

 necessary permission to travel in Mongolia and 

 sent to our Embassy in London, while our Am- 

 bassador at St. Petersburg got for us permits to 

 import rifles and cartridges into Russia, together 

 with permission to travel in Russian Turkestan. 



In London we tried to get some visiting cards 

 with our names in Chinese on them, but were unable 

 to do so. These cards are of thin paper, 3^ x 

 7^ inches, white on one side, red on the other, 

 with the name written on the red side in black ink. 

 It is important that the name on the card should be 



