Shoots round a Hill Station 



we saw nothing better than "languor" monkeys, 

 and eventually I had a terrible long pull back to 

 camp, which was reached at 6.30 p.m. 



The next day was still wet. I tried another 

 direction, keeping just in the forest belt. In the 

 morning I saw two little red spots below me, and 

 getting within 200 yards and 50 feet above them, 

 made them out to be karkur, the smallest of 

 Himalayan deer, something corresponding to our 

 roe. My first shot at the leader was a clean miss, 

 but the second stood a moment, giving me another 

 chance ; and thinking I had gone high, a very 

 common mistake firing down hill, I took in a little 

 less fore-sight, and number two collapsed. It was 

 a doe only, but not wasted, as they are very tender 

 eating. 



That afternoon we worked along the same 

 spur, I above and Woodyatt a long way out of 

 sight below. I saw a gural over 300 yards away 

 moving down a ravine, and had an unsportingly 

 long shot, the excuse being that I wished to warn 

 Woodyatt, and soon there was a rifle shot below, 

 and he had done the needful. This was another 

 doe; but shooting gural and karkur, this is un- 

 avoidable, as the sexes are almost indistinguishable. 



I talk about unsporting long shots, as they 

 must always be so; one's object should be to 

 get as near as possible to a beast, and then floor 

 him "in one," thus avoiding " tinkering" him 



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