

Before returning to Shore I had another successful day at 

 gooral, killing one of two animals I shot at right and left. 



Gooral-stalking in the precipitous and broken ground on 

 the middle ranges, is perhaps the pleasantest, though not the 

 grandest, kind of mountain sport. The amount of stiff climb- 

 ing it entails is quite enough to give it zest without making 

 it excessively laborious. The sportsman can generally return 

 to his tent to rest during the heat of the day, whilst the gooral 

 are doing likewise, hidden away among the shady recesses of 

 the rocks, and he can always get back at night to a comfort- 

 able bed. Moreover, in a good locality, one seldom has to 

 score the toilsome blank days that are not uncommon on the 

 upper ranges, and are frequent, I may say, beyond them, on 

 the bleak dreary uplands of Tibet. After the experience of 

 hunting every sort of Himalayan game, my own predilection 

 for this kind of shooting may be deduced from the fact of my 

 finding sixty gooral recorded in my Himalayan game-register, 

 as having been fairly stalked and shot with the rifle, which, 

 with the numbers I lost and missed, represent many a day's 

 genuine sport after these game little animals. 



Shooting-tent, 



