i8 DAYS AND NIGHTS OF SHIKAR 



guns and send them out at 3.0 a.m. Then we could 

 get up and have our breakfast comfortably and 

 stroll out to meet them about midday and see what 

 they had shot ! This was quite a new idea and one 

 that had never occurred to us, and we asked him if 

 he had just thought of this scheme. But he said 

 quite simply, " No, some sahibs do it." 



We had a good deal of bad weather, rain, snow and 

 mist at first, and then, at last, came a beautiful fine 

 morning and we were up before dawn. We always 

 went shooting in different directions, and on this 

 occasion Will went off with Punchi ibex-wards, and 

 Fuffia took me to a place where he said that kart 

 were always to be found. 



We climbed for some hours, and then I sat down 

 for a rest and ate some snow while Fuffia and his 

 coolie went on to look over one or two spurs. I had 

 never seen a kart, and as I sat there I noticed an 

 animal, that I can best describe by saying that it 

 had golden hair and four woolly legs, run along the 

 hillside. I saw the coolie far away running in my 

 direction, so I started to meet him. Fuffia had told 

 him to say I must come at once, and quickly, as there 

 were forty kart in sight. 



I joined Fuffia, and we crept along very cautiously 

 on tiptoe, peeping over rocks and round corners. I 

 expected to see something a mile away, as I knew 

 Fuffia's methods, but he was trembling with excite- 

 ment and his voice was shaking. He pointed sud- 

 denly and pulled up. There were a dozen or more 

 kart feeding about four hundred yards below us on 

 a grass slope. 



