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if taken properly. He is delightful to work 

 with, keen, devoted to his business, hardy 

 and faithful, but he must be handled judi- 

 ciously. If a man is not prepared to take 

 his fair share of the necessary hardships, 

 and, above all, to be absolutely just and 

 kind withal, he will probably return from 

 Cashmere to swell the numbers of those 

 who think that ibex shooting is an over- 

 rated sport. 



I have been unable to obtain pictures of 

 the actual valleys which were the scenes of 

 this expedition. The illustrative photo- 

 graphs I have used represent, however, pre- 

 cisely similar adjacent country, and were 

 taken by the Sikkim Boundary Commis- 

 sion. The right to use them was bought from 

 Messrs. Spooner, 379, Strand, London. 



NEVILLE TAYLOR. 



