XXV THE SPORTSMAN'S FADE MECUM 441 



K. C. A. J., the author of The Sportsman s Vade Mecttm 

 for the Himalayas} This book was beside me when 

 preparing for my own expedition, and I found it simply 

 invaluable. It has been prepared with the greatest care 

 by a genuine sportsman, who enters into the minutest 

 details with a thoroughness which leaves nothing to be 

 desired. But as time passes, and fresh knowledge is 

 acquired, opinions have to be modified, a fact which the 

 gallant author of the Vade Mecuvi would be himself the 

 first to admit. Further, that work deals generally with 

 camping in the Himalayas, and necessarily, therefore, 

 omits much which the traveller to Kashmir should know, 

 and which is peculiar to that country. It is for these 

 reasons that I have ventured to make a few suggestions. 

 The articles which a sportsman requires can be con- 

 veniently classed under seven heads, and considered in 

 the order given below : — 



I. Battery IV. Stores 



II. Tents V. Kitchen utensils 



III. Furniture VI. Clothes 



VII. Miscellaneous 



I. — Battery 



The weapon which I think is best suited to shooting 

 in Kashmir is a sporting ,303 Lee-Metford carbine, 

 sighted to 500 yards, and provided with the usual maga- 

 zine for ten cartridges. I consider this weapon, for 

 Kashmir shooting, superior to any express. There is 



1 Published by the Field Office. 



