Hindu-Koh: Wanderings and Wild Sport on and Beyond the Himalayas (Classic Reprint)

AN OLD }mZZLE-LOADER-HINDU-KOH-HIl'I!ALAYA~ SCENERY AN'D SPORT
-HUNTI~G ETIQUETTE-JUVENILE WILD SPORTS-WILD SHEEl' ArD
GAZELLES-START FOR THE lUOUN'TAINS - SIMLA - DEODAR CEDAR
FORESTS-RHODODE~DRO::-< TREES-THE SSOWY RANGE IN PROSPECT
-MOUNTAIN ROADS-CROSSING A "JULA"-MUSSOORIE-DElIRA
DOm'l'-AN INTERVIEW WITH SO}[E OF ITS W ILD DE~IZE~S-HURDWAR-
THE HOLY }o'AIR THERE, UD O~E OF ITS CO~SEQUE:CESTHE
TERAI-NYNEE TAL-ARRIVE A.T SHORE.
THE bygone performances of an old CI muzzle-loader" may
perhaps be considered rather obsolete by the young sportsman
of the present with his double "express." But as human
nature always has baen, and, I opine, ever win be much the
same, the pleasure of studying the habits of wild animals
in their native haunts, the excitement of the stalk, and the
charming influence of grand and beautiful scenery, must be
little altered now from what they were years ago, when first
I tried my "prentice hand" with the rifle among the highest


Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1; An old muzzle -loader - Hindu - Koh - Himalayan scenery and; sport-Hunting etiquette-Juvenile wild sports-'Vild sheep; and gazelles-Start for the mountains-Simla-Deodar cedar; forests-Rhododendron trees-The snowy range in prospectMountain; roads-Crossing a" jula "-Mussoorie-Dehra Doon; -An interview with some of its wild denizens-HurdwarThe; holy fair there, and one of its conseq uences-The Tcrai; -Nynee Tal-Arrive at Shore,; CHAPTER II; Outpost of Shore-The Thakil-Himalayan woodcocks - Woodsnipe-'; W oodoock carrying its young-Chuckor partridge~A; haunted house-Vhat happened in it-Hunting superstitions; -"The rains"-Leeches-Himalayan black bear-A bearhunt-; Bear-shooting in the oak