240 Sport and Life in the Further Himalaya 



suppose it is not uncommon, though I have 

 nowhere seen it mentioned by sportsmen. 



There is naturally not very much variety to be 

 found in antelope stalking : but in their country 

 you have in addition the gigantic yak ; the burhel, 

 half goat half sheep ; the Ovis ammon, " father of 

 all the flocks on earth " ; and the Tibetan gazelle. 



The rifle you require is one whose bullet will go 

 "a very long way in a very little time/' naturally 

 one of the modern small-bores with split soft-nose 

 bullets, with the flattest trajectory possible. The 

 drawback, though at the same time the charm, of 

 the country, is its remoteness. But at the same 

 time no one who has once penetrated into the 

 " mist of that dim land " has ever regretted it or 

 failed to succumb to its fascination. 



