UPPER ASIA 
worth while hunting there nowadays, although in days gone by it used to 
be. Kosh Agatch will supply horses and men for the actual hunting ex- 
pedition, and are better engaged permanently for the duration of the trip. 
The Mongols are independent people, and do not care to supply service 
or transport unless compelled to do so by their chiefs; and even then their 
one idea is to shift the job on to their friends at the next encampment and 
to be rid of one. At Kosh Agatch, also, the last details of one’s commissariat 
should be attended to. It is unnecessary to bring stores from the big Siberian 
towns, Biisk and Kosh Agatch supplying all that is needed in the food line. 
It should be remembered that for the whole period after leaving the latter 
post, until the return, no villages or trading stations will be met with. 
The only supplies that Mongolia will produce are milk and meat. 
The crest of the Little Altai is broken by several easy passes, the Chagan 
Burgazi and the Tarkhaty being the most often used, for these lead direct 
to the best hunting grounds. There are others which would lead from the 
Kosh Agatch steppe, across the Sailugem range, to the east; but it does 
not appear that any hunter has tried his luck in that direction. By going 
east from the post of Kosh Agatch and exploring the ranges that lie around 
the Alpine lakes of Ak and Kendikti-kul, a traveller might have a most 
interesting and instructive trip. There are sheep there for certain, and the 
country looks most promising from the east — the Achit Nor side. 
Practically all previous visitors have made for the Chagan Burgazi 
Pass, hunted around it, or on the Mongolian side, continuing the 
expedition along the southern side of the range and returning by way of 
Tarkhaty or Nam Daba Passes. It will be seen that there is no need to go 
very far. A study of the map might lead one to suppose that vast and 
untouched fields for sport lie to the south further into Mongolia. Large 
bare spaces, without names, seem to indicate unexplored regions, which 
might be a real refuge for all wild game, but experience teaches us that 
this is not so. The southern slopes of Little Altai to the west of the Chagan 
Burgazi Pass, and the circle of ranges that spread around the head waters 
of the Uigur or Darkhaty Rivers and its tributaries, these seem to be the 
real home of the ammon, both in very large numbers and of a very large 
size. All the largest known heads have been obtained here. 
In 1897 Prince E. Demidoff and Mr St George Littledale made an ex- 
cursion further into Mongolia, and hunted in a large circle which included 
the Beliou, Bain-Khairkhan and Sumdairik districts, but their success 
did not warrant so much time and trouble. They found sheep on the Bain- 
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