This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...reached Chelakturuk at 5.10 P.m., halting for one hour and forty minutes on the way. Here we leave the Kulja Road, and strike off for Koksu Nullah, where, at about longitude 830 E. and latitude 420 25' N., I hope to do the bulk of my shooting. I hoped that my messenger, sent on ahead from Aksu to Kulja, would have met ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...reached Chelakturuk at 5.10 P.m., halting for one hour and forty minutes on the way. Here we leave the Kulja Road, and strike off for Koksu Nullah, where, at about longitude 830 E. and latitude 420 25' N., I hope to do the bulk of my shooting. I hoped that my messenger, sent on ahead from Aksu to Kulja, would have met me here with my letters, but he did not arrive. Elevation of camp, 4400 feet. I got out my net to-day and caught a few butterflies. August ijt/t.--I left Chelakturuk about 10 A.m., and marched about 14 miles to my next camp, about 4 miles above the Kok Su Bridge, which we reached at 1.15 P.m. Tried to get a pheasant for the pot, but only saw one, an old cock, who gave me a long shot but escaped. On my arrival here I found that a Kalmuck named Nurla, to whom I had written in March, and again from Tashkurgan, to engage as my shikari, had taken service with another sahib. This was annoying, as it appeared that he had been told by this gentleman's servants that I had fallen ill and was not coming. Probably they never told their master that I had had letters written to engage the man, or perhaps my own servants may have made up the whole story, knowing that, as I do not speak Turki, it would be almost impossible for me to find out what had really happened. I afterwards saw the "chit" (character) which this gentleman gave to Nurla. He did not seem at all pleased with him, and said he was not only very conceited, but tried to play a favourite trick of the worst type of Kashmir shikari on him. These men, if their employer happens to be inexperienced and a bad shot, sometimes take out with them in a bottle some fresh blood obtained from a chicken or sheep. If a shot is fired and the animal not bagged the shikari runs on ahead and spills a lit...
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