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CONTENTS. Xlll 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Difficulty of finding great old markhor— A morning call at Bruin's 

 quarter — " Not at home " — Up among tlie pines— Birch-bark 

 and some of its uses — Cold tea— A herd of markhor — A wild 

 tableau — An awkward position for a shot — Gamoo implores 

 the assistance of Allah and the Prophet— A shadow of doubt — 

 All's well — Jerking the meat— Blackbirds — Snow-bridges — 

 Just in time for a shot — A bitter drop in the cup of happiness 

 — Gamoo and Hatha search for a talisman — The'bezoar — Our 

 luck deserts us — Grief — A random shot and its consequences 

 — An unexpected apparition — A close shave — We try a glissade 

 — A startlinf? sight — Kazima's first testimonial, . .181 



CHAPTER XV. 



Stag-shooting in Cashmere compared with deer-stalking in Scot- 

 land — The " rutting " season — The Cashmere stag — Watching 

 for a stag — A love-song — A royal hart — Human vultures — 

 A miss in the dark — Splendid view of "the Vale" — Our 

 reveries are disturbed — Wild music — Ramzan's strategy — 

 A rather mean advantage — Remorse — A challenge 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, ........ 199 



CHAPTER XVI. 



An unexpected meeting with a stranger in the land — Cold quar- 

 ters — Tracking in the snow — The short twilight fails us — We 

 lose our wounded stag — The forest monarch — A charmed life 

 — Doubtful satisfaction — Lost trophies are always the finest — 

 An exciting but rather " shady " way of doing business — A 

 night vigil — The Goojur's black stag — An invasion of rats 

 and mice — How we circumvented the black stag — A grand 

 set of horns — Cashmere method of driving a gorge — Making 

 a virtue of necessity — Why "hangul" have decreased in 

 numbers, ........ 215 



