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CHAPTER XVI. 



STAG - SHOOTING IN CASHMERE COMPARED WITH DEER - STALKING IN 

 SCOTLAND THE "RUNNING" SEASON A MOUNTAIN " DANDY " 

 THE LOLAB VALLEY WE LOOK UP BRUIN AMONG THE PLUM-TREES 

 A SHOT IN THE DUSK ON THE SCENT THE " AWAZ KE WAKT " 

 THE " BARA 8INGHA " TAPPING FOR FLYING SQUIRRELS WATCHING 



FOR A STAG A LOVE -SONG A ROYAL HART HUMAN VULTURES 



A MISS IN THE DARK AN INQUISITIVE HIND SPLENDID VIEW OF 

 "THE VALE" OUR REVERIES ARE DISTURBED WILD MUSIC RAM- 

 ZAN'S STRATEGY A RATHER MEAN ADVANTAGE REMORSE A CHAL- 

 LENGE AND A REPLY RECKLESSNESS OF STAGS DURING THE RUTTING 

 SEASON AN ARTIFICE FOR ATTRACTING THEM WITH WHAT SUCCESS 

 WE TRIED IT A NATIVE PRACTITIONER FORCED TO SUBMIT TO HIS 

 TENDER MERCIES. 



SHOULD the following account of the pursuit of the " hangul," 

 or Cashmere stag, chance to meet the eye of any one who, 

 like Leech's " Mr Briggs," has been "made free " of a Scottish 

 deer-forest, he may contend that stag-shooting in Cashmere 

 is inferior to deer-stalking in the Highlands. Well, in point 

 of numbers he is perhaps right. But he must take into con- 

 sideration that a forest in the Himalayas is very different 

 from a forest in the Grampians. The former is a true forest 

 in every sense of the word, where the deer are at all seasons 

 liable to be disturbed by beasts of prey as well as by hunters, 

 siinl where, in its vast wooded depths, they are often very 

 difficult to find; whereas the latter, as is well known, is 

 nowadays usually one only in name, so far as trees are 

 concerned, where the cervine denizens, from being tended, 



