HUNTING AND STALKING ON PLAINS. IQI 



Ground. Transitory Marks. Fossil Tracks and Impressions. Permanent 

 Earth Marks. Buffalo Willows. Beaver Meadows. Game Paths. 

 Mountain Tracks. Old Trails. Disappearance and Reappearance of 

 Blind Trails. Sun-baked Plains and the Trails of Game. Passing Feet 

 among Short Grass. Trails among Rocks and Hard Ground. Austra- 

 lian Blacks as Tradesmen. Sun-dried Footprints. "Droppings." Old 

 Waggon Trails. Searching for Game. Startled Game Spread Alarm 

 among other Animals. The Sound of Shots. Laying out a Stalk. 

 Game and the Wind. Game Rarely look Uphill. Moving Objects and 

 Game. Sentinels of Game Herds. Cross Winds. Stalking Game in 

 Unfavourable Positions. Driving Game towards the Gun. Game Passes 

 among Hills. Pursuit of Startled Game. GraUoching Dead Game. 

 Vultures and Dead Game. Carrying Dead Game on Horses. Hunting 

 Trophies. Wounded Game. Gunshot Wounds. What a Gunshot 

 Wound feels like. Instances of Wonderful Vitality after Wounds 

 Received. Recovery of Apparently Dead Animals. Approaching Sup- 

 posed Dead Dangerous Animals. Insensibility to Fresh Wounds by 

 Mortally Wounded Animals. The Tracking of Wounded Game. Night 

 Shooting. Seeing Gun-sights in the Dark. Difficulty of Observing Effects 

 of Shots at Night. Rifle Pits. Making a Shooting Hole. Shadows 

 During Moonlight. Dewless Nights. Night Glasses. The Sequence 

 of Arrival among Game. Caution as to Shooting Accidents at Night. 

 Jungle Shooting in India at Night. Sir Samuel Baker on Night 

 Shooting. Construction of Platforms in Trees and on Scaffolds. Anti- 

 quity of Peasant Farmers Watching their Fields at Night. Watching 

 for Game by Day from Blinds. Mountain Shooting. Necessity for 

 Keeping Above Game. Scent in High Winds. Mountain Sheep. 

 Night at Great Altitudes. Sleeping Bags against Great Cold. Mountain 

 Caverns as a Refuge at Night. Mountain Sheep, Goats, and Antelopes 

 on the Thibetan Table-land. Great Herds of Game in Thibet. Game 

 in the Winter Snows. Nutritive Lichens at Great Elevations in these 

 Mountains. Reindeer Moss. Saxifrages. Food of the Arctic Game. 

 Peculiarities of Life at Great Elevations. Shooting of Guns Affected 

 by Rarefied Air. Advantage of Long Barrels for Mountain Shooting. 

 Judging Distances among High Mountains. Value of a Mountain Tour 

 in developing the Mental and Bodily Faculties. 



AVAST area of the earth's habitable surface con- 

 sists as we have shown of treeless plains and 

 waterless deserts. The first are great natural meadows 

 whose equatorial margins adjoin the more barren 

 regions classed under the head of deserts, on the 

 other side of which the great bush country stretches 

 away towards the equator, in a vast expanse of plain 

 covered with detached trees and shrubs, sometimes 



