Hunting at High Altitudes 



about nine inches long by five wide and a couple 

 of inches thick, a piece of which is cut off much in 

 the same way as plug tobacco. The tea itself is 

 quite good to Western tastes, but when a lump of 

 salt and some rancid butter is added to the brew, it 

 leaves much to be desired. 



We spent a week at this camp, which was on a 

 river called Jilgalong, once a famous place for 

 wapiti, but now full of the immense herds of horses 

 and sheep that the natives were pasturing here. 

 Our camp was beside a river, running clear and 

 cold, which should have contained trout, but, like 

 all rivers running from the glaciers into the 

 Tekkes, had no fish. The only game was roe deer, 

 of which we shot several, usually by driving them 

 up one of the numerous nullahs. These roe are a 

 much larger animal than their western relatives, 

 standing from thirty to thirty-four inches at the 

 shoulder, with horns about fourteen inches long. 

 There were some black game scattered among the 

 hills, but without a dog it was useless to try to 

 find them. In the scrub bordering the Tekkes, and 

 more especially on the islands in the stream, there 

 were plenty of pheasants, similar to the common 

 English variety, with a white ring around the neck. 

 On the plains there were a few bustard, both great 

 and small, but very few ducks or geese. 



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