DUCK SHOOTING 



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Zaissan, there were two passes into the Bashkaous 

 Valley, and he strongly recommended the Koukouriou 

 Pass, to which, in our ignorance of the country, we 

 agreed. The other way, he said, was much longer, 

 and the path more difficult for the ponies. In the 



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afternoon of the 1 7th August we had finished our 

 preparations, and went out Duck shooting on one of 

 the numerous lakes of the Kosh-Agatch steppe. I 

 still hoped to get the rare Duck I had been asked to 

 look for by Mr. Alpheraki, but though we shot 

 several, they were all of common species. Littledale 



