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SPORT IN THE HIGHLANDS OF KASHMIR 



toy in my hand, promptly bolted. The bull looked very 

 fine as he came on, and the thought flashed through my 

 mind, as I stood watching him, that his photograph taken 

 then would be worth having. I waited till the gray 

 muzzle was about ten yards off. and then raising the 

 rifle, saw the bead gleam for an instant on the dark hair 



Yak (shot on 24th August). 

 Length on curve, 29". Circumference, 13". Tip to tip, isj". 

 (Measurements by Rowland Ward.) 



of the forehead as I pressed the trigger. The next 

 moment the sharp crack of the .2,02, was followed by the 

 heavy fall of the bull, who went over stone dead, with a 

 bullet through the brain. 



