PREFACE vii 



We decided on our somewhat roundabout route 

 partly to avoid the above difficulty and partly 

 because we both wished to revisit Kashmir, a 

 country which when once known has an extra- 

 ordinary attraction for most people. There is, of 

 course, a very much more simple and direct route 

 from England than the one we took. This I pro- 

 pose to describe further on, and at the same time 

 to give some hints as to which part of the country 

 I consider best worth visiting from a shooting point 

 of view, with notes as to distances, game to be 

 found, best time of year, and anything else which 

 I think may be of service. 



Recently Central Asia has been a good deal 

 written about, but chiefly from scientific or political 

 points of view. These I have left alone, knowing 

 but little of the former, and considering that the 

 latter does not come into trie province of what is 

 merely a journal of travel and sport. It is perhaps 

 rather a large order to give a description of the 

 sport to be got in so big a district, but as the 

 country is practically new to sportsmen I may be 

 excused for my attempt. I have travelled and shot 

 over a good deal of it myself, and have in addition 

 collected much information from natives ; this, of 

 course, cannot always be implicitly relied upon, 

 and when I mention any shooting-grounds which 



