i84 SPORT IN THE HIGHLANDS OF KASHMIR chap, xi 



through the head, notwithstanding the fact that the first 

 bullet had caught him on the spine. 



I thought of the ibex shot on the 19th, which had 

 been apparently hit on a rib off which the bullet had 

 seemed to glance, and here before me was a very similar 

 result, produced by the same weapon and a similar bullet. 

 Knowing what is said as to the terrific force of impact of 

 a Lee-Metford bullet, I wondered greatly at the curious 

 effects produced by those two shots. 



The bear only measured 4 feet and half an inch — a 

 small male. We skinned him and then went down to the 

 camp, where a space was cleared with some difficulty 

 amongst the pines, and the skin stretched to dry. 



