IQO SPORT IN THE HIGHLANDS OF KASHMIR chap. 



US go up to him and seize him by the horns, though on 

 examination only one bullet-wound could be found, and 

 that had shattered the left forearm without doing any 

 other damage. The head proved to be fairly good, 392- 

 inches. Then we made haste back to the camp, and I 

 took my seat behind the screen erected in the morning, 

 and waited for the leopard till an hour after dark had 

 passed, but without success. 



Next morning, the 3rd, I heard that the leopard 

 had visited the kill again during the night, so I resolved 

 to give it one more chance in the evening. The day 

 proved a blank as far as ibex were concerned, for though 

 we walked up to the very end of the nala we were in, 

 nothing more was seen. 



I was greatly struck that day by the size of the 

 avalanches that I saw come down. The air was full of 

 rumbling like distant thunder, and there was hardly a 

 minute, after about eight or nine o'clock, when snow was 

 not somewhere rolling down the mountain sides. In 

 some places the fall was so great that a cloud of what 

 looked like fine white vapour, but which was really 

 snow, would arise and completely conceal for a short 

 time the part of the mountain over which it hung. The 

 accumulations of snow in some of the hollows must have 

 been of enormous depth. 



The attempt in the evening to get a shot at the 

 leopard was again unsuccessful, for though I tied up a 

 goat near the kill, he never showed. I think I ought to 

 have slept beside the screen and tried a chance shot at 

 night, but this did not occur to me till I had left the nala. 



That night the post coolie brought me a packet I 



