THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
Khairkhan; indeed, it was here Mr Littledale shot a fine 60-inch head, 
and Prince Demidoff got a 51 -inch head in the Beliou range, but their 
party marched far through gameless country. The big mass of Muss Taou, 
which they intended to visit but did not reach, still remains unhunted; 
while the region around the lakes of Dolto Nor and Dain Gol does not 
seem to be good ground. This latter district is overrun by Kirghiz and 
their flocks, but the territory north of the Chagan-gol valley is Mongol, 
and their small numbers in no way disturb the game. This party eventu- 
ally returned to the Uigur Valley and had good sport before recrossing 
the Little Altai. 
Since that year no one has attempted to find better hunting grounds 
in Mongolia, being contented with the prospects held out by the south- 
western flanks of the Little Altai and the country around the Uigur Valley. 
In 1910, in company with Mr J. H. Miller and Mr M. P. Price, we had 
opportunities of finding out the possibilities of ammon shooting through 
the whole of North-Western Mongolia, from the Tannu-ola range to the 
Mongolian Altai. We eventually came to the conclusion that although the 
ammon are to be found in many localities, the only one worth hunting 
was the region bordering the Darkhaty and Uigur Valley on the north. 
This is an extensive district and is not likely to be shot out. We found traces 
of wild sheep all the way from the southern slopes of the Tannu-ola to 
the Mongolian Altai. They certainly exist as far north of the ranges at the 
head of the Kemchik River, and we saw them on the Turgun or Kundelum 
Mountains; on the main Mongolian Altai I think they are “local ” and 
probably confined chiefly, if not entirely, to the north-eastern side. At 
the main sources of the Kobdo River, above the Dolto Nor Lakes, there 
should be some good ground. Colonel Abbot Anderson and Major Pereira, 
in 1911, obtained heads at a point near the western shore of the Upper 
Dolto Nor. Further along the range, the big buttress to the south of Dain 
Gol looks as if it might hold big sheep ; further still there are sheep -grounds 
on nearly all the spurs which run out into the Gobi. 
Returning to the northern approaches to the main hunting ground, 
the traveller will leave the Kosh Agatch steppe by an easy incline, and after 
passing through the Little Altai, will see before him a world of rolling 
downs, topped in places by higher shale ridges patched with snow. In the 
hollows flow delightfully clear streamlets, over pebble bottoms; here 
and there the valleys are boggy and the streams form small lakes. 
Luxuriant grass and many flowers carpet the hills. The altitude averages 
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