Hunting at High Altitudes 



ing in heads of Ovis poll, ibex and roe deer for 

 the Director of the School, who also supplied 

 museums, while everyone frankly admitted that 

 there was no reason why we should not go wher- 

 ever we wished. 



At length, on July 3, after having been at 

 Przevalsk since June 1 6, we received permission to 

 cross the border at Naryn Kul, and were so glad 

 to be underway once more that we started at once, 

 traveling well on into the night. The next day 

 brought us to Karakara, in the middle of a large 

 plain, where for three months in the summer a 

 great fair is annually held. Hither come the 

 nomadic tribes from considerable distances 

 Kirghiz and Kazaks, to purchase for the follow- 

 ing year all articles which they cannot make for 

 themselves. The Fair is laid out in streets with 

 wooden booths, each street or portion of a street 

 being devoted to one article such as saddlery, 

 cooking pots, and so on while on the outskirts of 

 the town a brisk trade is carried on in horses, 

 camels, cattle, sheep and goats. We spent the day 

 here, wandering through the bazaars, and could 

 not but admire the manner in which the bazaar 

 master kept order. 



In the evening we traveled on again, and in the 

 morning, just as we neared Naryn Kul, had a 



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