CHAPTER XXIX 



COST OF SHOOTING IN KASHMIR 



Rates fixed by Durbar — Rates for transport — Cost of three months' trip in 

 Baltistan — My own charges there — Corresponding cost in Ladak — 

 Cost if sportsman takes his wife to Ladak — Actual transport charges in 

 Ladak — Cost of journey to Srinagar — Sheep occasionally for servants 

 — Washing face. 



Living in Kashmir is cheap, and the cost of a shooting 

 trip is very moderate, unless the sportsman encumbers 

 himself with too much baggage. A great deal has been 

 done of recent years to assist travellers and reduce 

 things to a system, and rates have been fixed by the 

 Durbar for the hire of coolies, ponies, yaks, and boats. 

 Most of the main routes have been marked off into 

 regular stages, and information is published as to the 

 supplies, etc., obtainable at different places. A special 

 officer, maintained by the State, looks after the wants 

 of visitors to Srinagar, and furnishes all who require 

 it with a statement of the prices of most com- 

 modities. A small pamphlet is published, containing 

 the rules laid down for the guidance of visitors, and 

 giving the rates fixed for transport on the commoner 

 routes. Strangers would do well not to promise payment 



