HIMALAYAN MAR KHOR 
are the home of the markhor, —a light-colored goat which 
dwells among the gigantic peaks of the “roof of the world” 
on the northern border of Kashmir, and is believed to be the 
parent, at least in part, of the valuable Angora goat. 
“Tt is the finest of all wild goats,” exclaims Hornaday, in an article in 
Scribner's Magazine for September, 1905, describing heads and horns of 
game in his own very notable collection of such trophies in 
New York, ‘‘and in every respect a very picturesque creature. 
Its jet-black horns rise jauntily from the forehead, then sweep backward 
and outward, twisting as they go, until they make a complete turn, or even 
two turns, and attain a length of from forty-eight to sixty inches. Under its 
neck hangs an aston- 
ishing mane of creamy 
yellow hair a foot long, 
and the body coat also 
is long and shaggy. 
“To some persons, 
doubtless, a pair of 
markhor horns are 
merely a pair of odd- 
looking, screwlike 
horns, and _ nothing 
more. To others they 
call up pictures of 
snowy peaks, wet and 
soggy clouds drift- 
ing by, tremendous 
chasms, rock walls 
going down thousands 
of feet, shaggy-headed, p 
wild-looking natives [a= =. 9 ™ 
with chocolate-colored Copy™gnt, N. Y. Zodt. Society. Sanborn, Phot. 
skins, and tiny villages MOONS MABEHOR RAM: 
of mud huts perched like sea birds’ nests on frightful ledges. And then 
one thinks of the journey down, drop after drop, to hill, forest, and plain; 
the bazaar on the frontier, the bazaar ‘down country’; through a dozen 
hands and half a dozen languages, until at last they reach a white sahib 
thousands of miles away.”’ 
Markhor. 
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