PREFACE
The notes on Stalks in the Himalaya were, for the most part, written in continuation of those already published in Jungle By-ways in India. My intention had been to deal with big game shooting in the plains and hills in one volume. When it became apparent that the material collected and likely to prove of interest was too copious to admit of this treatment, a division of the notes became necessary. The difference in the methods of following the pursuit of big game shooting in the plains and hills is sufficiently marked to have indicated a partition of the notes on these lines.
As in the case of the previous volume, the natural history data and incidents are selected from shooting diaries and note-books, as also the thumb-nail sketches illustrating the text. For the more pretentious of the latter my thanks are due to the far more efficient pen of my wife.
The pursuit of big game in a mountainous region must ever prove a most fascinating pastime to the keen lover of fine scenery and to the sportsman possessed of the stamina essential to enable him to love for itself the hard physical exertion it entails and the often severe calls made upon
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