476 SPORT IN THE HIGHLANDS OF KASHMIR chap. 



for the camp, when the spring is some distance from the 

 tents. 



The shikari should have a belt, provided with a pouch, 

 in which he could carry a couple of spare packets of 

 ammunition. With lo cartridges in the magazine, lo in 

 his coat, and 20 with the shikari, the sportsman would 

 have more than he could possibly use in a single outing. 



In these days, when every one is more or less of a 

 photographer, the sportsman will probably want a camera 

 of some kind. He should certainly take one, as the 

 additional weight involved is nothing, and the pleasure of 

 having a sort of pictorial diary of his wanderings will 

 afterwards be very great. There is an immense variety 

 to choose from, and I am not competent to venture on 

 advice in the matter. I may mention, however, that I 

 used an Eastman's No. 5 Folding Kodak, taking pictures 

 5 by 7, and provided with a Roll holder for films. Three 

 spools of 96 negatives, which I exposed in Baltistan, and 

 which were developed afterwards in London, proved, 

 almost without exception, failures, some owing to over 

 exposure in the clear air of the Highlands I was working 

 in, and some to other causes. I exposed about two more 

 spools before leaving Kashmir, and altogether got about 

 50 pictures, which I am glad to possess. The illustra- 

 tions in this book were all reproduced, by an automatic 

 process, from photographs which I took with the 

 camera mentioned above. A developing outfit should, 

 I think, also be taken, so that the sportsman may 

 ascertain whether he is working right or not. The 

 atmosphere of the Highlands of Kashmir differs so much 

 from that of the plains of India, or other places not much 



