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CHAPTEE I. 



AN OLD MUZZLE-LOADER HINDU-KOH HIMALAYAN SCENERY AND SPORT 

 HUNTING ETIQUETTE JUVENILE WILD SPORTS WILD SHEEP AND 

 GAZELLES START FOR THE MOUNTAINS SIMLA DEODAR CEDAR 

 FORESTS RHODODENDRON TREES THE SNOWY RANGE IN PROSPECT 

 MOUNTAIN ROADS CROSSING A " JULA " MUSSOORIE DEHRA 

 DOON AN INTERVIEW WITH SOME OF ITS WILD DENIZENS KURD- 

 WAR THE HOLY FAIR THERE, AND ONE OF ITS CONSEQUENCES 

 THE TERAI NYNEE TAL ARRIVE AT SHORE. 



THE bygone performances of an old "muzzle-loader" may 

 perhaps be considered rather obsolete by the young sportsman 

 of the present with his double "express." But as human 

 nature always has been, and, I opine, ever will be much the 

 same, the pleasure of studying the habits of wild animals 

 in their native haunts, the excitement of the stalk, and the 

 charming influence of grand and beautiful scenery, must be 

 little altered now from what they were years ago, when first 

 I tried my " prentice hand " with the rifle among the highest 

 mountains in the world. 



Before proceeding to narrate these old-fashioned perform- 

 ances, let me account for the heading I have given this book, 

 as to some it may appear far-fetched. So many works had 

 already been produced on this same subject, with a " Hima- 



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