About Yak 



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really fine trophies, and it would be a thousand 

 pities if he were to meet the fate of elimination 

 which has overtaken so many of the finest 

 breeds of wild oxen of other lands. Not that 

 this is at present likely or possible. All the 

 damage that is in the power of the most wanton 

 to inflict is to help to drive them from the 

 districts adjoining Kashmir, as they have been 

 driven from Kashmir territory itself into the 

 far interior of what still remains "the forbidden 

 land," but this would be pity enough. 



For humanity's sake : use a heavy rifle and 

 not a small-bore. 



For your stomach's sake : when you kill a 

 yak, keep the tongue and likewise the marrow 

 bones for your own table, and let your followers 

 have the rest. They will be incapable of march- 

 ing the next day but you too, perhaps, will 

 not mind what is known in the East as " a 

 Europe morning. ' 



