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CHAPTER XXV. 



CONTAINING A FEW HINTS CONCERNING KIT, CAMP-EQUIPAGE, ETC., FOR 

 A HIMALAYAN HUNTING-TRIP, WHICH, TO THE YOUNG HAND, MAY 

 BE USEFUL. 



BEFORE taking leave of the kind reader, I would crave his 

 patience for a moment or two longer whilst I add a few con- 

 cluding remarks, some of which may be of use to the inex- 

 perienced, whereas others I should perhaps call apologies for 

 my shortcomings. 



To those who are not disciples of St Hubert, should they 

 have cared to open such a volume, the fact of its being 

 almost entirely devoted to subjects connected with wild sport 

 will, I fear, have made it dull and unavoidably egotistical ; 

 and the brief descriptions of animals will, I daresay, have 

 been as uninteresting as they are imperfect. These latter are 

 mere notes of my own observations. They are given more 

 for the benefit of those who, being unacquainted with the 

 Himalayan ferae natures, may naturally, when reading of their 

 pursuit, wish to know something about their general appear- 

 ance l and habits, than with the idea of adding anything to 

 natural history beyond that which is well known. 



The tyro, I venture to hope, may not have found this book 

 altogether uninteresting, and some of the hints it contains 

 may possibly be of some service to him. 



1 The two groups of heads, from photographs by Mr R. Milne of Aboyne, 

 have been given with the same intention. 



