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ing, and they were very successful in killing wild 

 sheep and other game from their shelter. 



Such enclosures should be some six feet in diameter, 

 and the walls may be some thirty inches or three feet 

 high; to get better cover, the floor may be sunk a 

 little, giving a hole for the feet to go into, the sports- 

 man sitting on the ground level. The blinds used in 

 grouse-driving at home are good forms of this sort of 

 thing, but they are especially prepared for sportsmen 

 to shoot from while standing. 



We must end this chapter with a short reference 

 to mountain shooting. " The grand rule in all hill 

 stalking " (says Colonel Kinlock, one of the latest and 

 best authorities on these matters) " is to keep well 

 above the herd, whose vigilance is chiefly directed 

 beneath them." * It seems to be a pretty general 

 practice of all animals to survey the landscape below 

 them, without paying much attention to the higher hills 

 which rise above them, unless some circumstance occurs 

 to arouse their suspicions of an enemy overlooking them. 

 To enable them the more effectually to look down upon 

 the world beneath, most hill creatures for this reason make 

 at once for the highest grounds the moment they 

 become alarmed. That being so, it is of course desirable 

 for the hunter to keep well up towards the hill tops, 

 from whence he also can get a good survey of every- 

 thing beneath him. There he is less likely to be ob- 

 served or scented by game, unless indeed he is thought- 

 less enough to show himself against the sky-line, in 

 coming over a divide. Moreover, after the first climb 

 among hills where the tops are not cut off from the 



* Large Game Shooting in Thibet and the Himalayas, by Colonel 

 Kinlock, King's Royal Rifle Corps, Calcutta 1885, p. 146. 



