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HUNTING THE TAKIN 
A SEARCH FOR A RARE SPECIMEN OF BIG GAME 
IN THE MOUNTAIN FASTNESS OF WESTERN CHINA 
By MASON MITCHELL 
O the sportsman, West- 
ern China offers at- 
tractions that hardly 
any other country can 
equal. Unlike Africa, 
it is difficult to find, 
and harder to reach 
the habitat of desired 
specimens of rare big 
game, but when once 
the hunter has suc- 
ceeded in killing what 
he has sought, the long 
travel, privations, expense and time oc- 
cupied in getting to the ground are all 
forgotten in the joy of securing a speci- 
men that has seldom, if ever, been shot by 
an American or European sportsman. 
Hence the following short account of a 
trip from Chungking, China, to the Tibe- 
tan border for the animal called the takin 
( Burdorcas taxicolor). In Chinese it is 
known as the ya-nu (wild ox). Since I 
have been living in Chungking I have met 
several British sportsmen who have come 
out from England in quest of this animal 
which no one except Tibetans or Chinese 
hunters had ever killed. The efforts of 
the foreigners were fruitless, owing prin- 
cipally to their not having good inter- 
preters of Chinese, as the language dif- 
fers materially in almost all of the 18 
Provinces; also to the fact they were 
unable to procure good hunters and dogs 
in the district they selected to hunt in. 
Entire Western China, 1,000 miles 
from the sea coast, is mountainous, and 
composed of mighty ranges that extend 
through Tibet. There are no roads on 
which a vehicle can travel. Footpaths 
only extend over the mountains, where 
ponies or mules or chairs carried by the 
native coolies, are the only means of 
transportation. 
The Yangste river is the main water- 
way into Central China. On this river 
steam navigation is possible to Ichang, 
1.000 miles from Shanghai. Above this 
to Chungking, a distance of 500 miles, 
the boats are hauled by a band of track- 
ers through the rapids and gorges 
against a current that at places has a 
speed of 15 miles an hour. 
From my residence in Chungking I 
traveled overland 21 days due Westward, 
crossing three ranges 10,000 to 13,000 
feet in height, affording scenery only 
equalled by the Alps or the Rockies, to 
the mountain town of Ta-chien-lu which 
is at an altitude of 8,400 feet, facing the 
snow-capped peaks of Tibet. There, as 
per previous arrangement, hunters and 
dogs were in readiness to escort me 
farther up the mountains to a height of 
12.000 or 15,000 feet, which is the habitat 
of the takin. 
This animal is feared by the native 
hunters. He is vicious and will charge 
and butt if pressed. On level ground 
the danger would not be so great, but 
when on a steep mountain side or per- 
haps dangerously near a high cliff, such 
as the takin usually select for their 
abode, the hunter is in a poor position 
to have a savage 800-pound animal come 
on under full steam, intent on smashing 
him off the face of the earth. 
A favorite mode of the native hunters 
in capturing the takin is to spread a slip 
noose of strong hair rope on the narrow 
edge of a cliff, around which they know 
the runway of the animal lies. On be- 
ing caught in the rope its struggles for 
release commence and generally end in 
its backing over the side and hanging 
itself. 
The second day after leaving Ta-chien- 
lu we had reached an altitude of over 
12,000 feet. Being in the middle of May 
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Takin shot by Mr. Mitchell in Western China 
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