A SUMMER IN HIGH ASIA. 



" Large Game Shooting in Thibet and Northern 

 India," says: "The horns of this sheep are enor- 

 mously massive in proportion to its size, and an 

 old ram's head is the trophy most anxiously coveted 

 by the Himalayan hunter, and very often longed 

 for in vain. ... I have hunted most kinds of large 

 game in India and Thibet, and, after a lengthened 

 experience, I can unhesitatingly affirm that there 

 is no animal so difficult to stalk as a male nyan." 

 To quote the words of "Mountaineer" in the 

 "Summer Ramble in the Hamalayas " : ". . . 

 When the successful hunter at length runs up to 

 a fallen beast, lifts up his enormous head and 

 surveys his ponderous horns, he may rest assured 

 that he has gained the highest step in the art of 

 deer-stalking." 



Again, Major-General Macintyre, in that most 

 charming book of Shikar, " Hindu-Koh," says : " In 

 fact, the man who fairly stalks and kills his big 

 ram Ovis Ammon may consider that he has gained 

 the ' Blue Ribbon,' so to speak, of Himalayan 

 sport." Whilst Colonel Ward, in his " Sports- 

 man's Guide to Kashmir and Ladak," a handbook 

 which is as indispensable to anyone who shoots 

 in the Himalaya as is his rifle itself, says : " Ovis 

 Ammon are more plentiful than is generally sup- 

 posed to be the case, but large horns are rarely 

 obtained." Small wonder then that I was excited 

 on hearing that there were Ovis Ammon in the 

 Gya Nalah. 



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