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SPORT IN THE HIGHLANDS OF KASHiVUR 



been stopped by his horns in a small tree, and though 

 he must have been quite dead the shikari cut his throat. 

 This was my last day after big game in Kashmir. 

 On the I ith I returned to Srinagar, and a few days later 

 went to Baramulla to settle preliminaries for going after 

 the 50- inch markhor in the Kajnag, of which I had 

 heard when I was at Uri on my way into Kashmir, and 

 which had not so far been shot. While there, a telegram 

 arrived, recalling me to India, on account of the famine. 

 So I returned to Srinagar to arrange for leaving, and, 

 on the ist of December, we started for Rawal Pindi, 



The horns and skins I took with me, weighed, when 

 packed, 10 maunds, 29 seers ( = nearly 8 cwt.), and I left 

 the bulk of the skins behind. The total bag: ^ for the 

 eight months' shoot was as follows : — 



A brief analysis of the time spent on this expedition 

 may not be uninteresting, as showing the number of 

 days on which shooting may be expected when after 



^ The small heads are of course not counted. 



