BULLET AND SHOT 



THE YAK (Poephagus grunniens) 



This animal, which is a native of Thibet, is but 

 rarely shot by English sportsmen. The reason for 

 this is the extreme jealousy of the Thibetan 

 Government, whose Tartars turn back any English- 

 men who may try to cross the frontier into those 

 inhospitable regions. 



General Kinloch relates how he tried unsuccess- 

 fully upon several occasions to bag a bull yak, and 

 that it was not until his fifth visit to the ground that 

 he at last succeeded. Cows are not unfrequently 

 found in the Chung Chemno valley, and very occa- 

 sionally a sportsman (who is highly favoured by 

 fortune) has had the good luck to find and to bag 

 a bull there. 



Many devices have been employed by ardent 

 sportsmen to get past the cordon of Tartars on 

 the Thibetan frontier, but it is very seldom that 

 any have succeeded. 



Colonel W. (of the 43rd O.L.I.) succeeded in 

 bagging a bull in his first trip to yak ground, but 

 if my memory rightly serves me, he managed to 

 cross the frontier and to bag one bull before he 

 was discovered and turned back. 



According to General Kinloch, anyone who might 

 succeed in eluding the Tartars, and in reaching the 

 mountains to the north of the Sutlej, would have a 

 good chance, but he also points out how very 

 difficult it would be to effect this. 



He states that the height of a wild bull yak is 



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