THE WILD GOATS OF CASHMERE 



consider himself indeed a favourite of Fortune. 

 Two acquaintances of my own have in compa- 

 ratively recent years bagged heads of this calibre, 

 but any horns of over 40 inches are well worthy 

 the expenditure of much time and labour to 

 secure. 



Colonel Ward writes that April and May are 

 the best months for ibex shooting, though June 

 also, he says, is a good month for it. Colonel 

 Ward's The Sportsman s Guide to Cashmere and 

 Ladak gives details as to localities, and this, as 

 well as General Kinloch's grand work, should be 

 purchased by any sportsman who may intend to 

 shoot ibex and other game in Cashmere. But the 

 new hand at this shooting must bear in mind that 

 many of the localities mentioned in Colonel Ward's 

 book have long since been played out so far as 

 heads worth shooting are concerned, and that, as 

 time goes on, sportsmen must make up their minds 

 to penetrate further and further into the interior, 

 and to seek nullahs which have been but little 

 shot over, if they be determined to bag fine 

 trophies. The same remark applies to all Hima- 

 layan game. Unless a sportsman who intends 

 coming out from home on a shooting trip to 

 Cashmere, or one in India who has never been 

 in Cashmere before, can obtain from friends really 

 reliable recent information as to localities, his best 

 course, having first studied Ward's and Kinloch's 

 books, is to reach Srinagar very early in April, 

 and ascertain upon the spot what had been done 

 in the previous season, and where the best bags 



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