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Title: The sportsman's book for India
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918, ed
Subjects: Sports -- India
Publisher: London, H. Marshall & Son
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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ld firmly in hand ; they areapt to look on the Sahib as a means of makingmoney for themselves and their hangers-on, andthe instrument by which a shot has to be firedwhen the moment is considered propitious bythe shikari. The Chamba shikari, at half thewages, is a better man. The coolies are finemen, but terribly lazy and not to be comparedwith the Chamba men.Stores. Everything required in the way of provisions,such as butter, jam, tea, cocoa, soup, biscuitsand salt, candles, oil, and matches can beobtained at Pestonjees shop or from severalother merchants. Two or three leather kiltasor a couple of yakdans will hold two monthssupplies. In most villages you can obtain eggs,chickens, milk, and sometimes rice, flour and oil.It is as well to carry a reserve ration of flour,milk and meat, to be returned to the shop if notrequired. It is generally necessary to carry ricefor your servants, as large quantities can beobtained only here and there. This is the casein Ladakh, Baltistan and Chilas.
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KASHMIR SHOOTING 139 All camp kit, including your own tent, two Camp Kit.servants tents, furniture and cooking-pots, canbe hired from Cockburns Agency. Tent hirecosts from Rs.3 to Rs. 10 a month. My advice,however, is to bring your own camp-bed andchair, if they be of a strong and serviceablepattern, and also a set of aluminium cooking-pots. A couple of pairs of leather chaplies, or Marchingsandals, with leather socks, will be found very f^g Kit! light and comfortable for marching. They are,however, useless in the wet or over rocks.The Kashmir grass shoes are the only safemeans of climbing in the rocky country fre-quented by ibex and markhor. They are madeup by your coolies as wanted, but a supplyof the special grass required for them mustbe carried with you. One pony load shouldbe sufficient for three months. As a strandof the twisted grass has to pass between yourbig and second toes, you must have about sixpairs of woollen grass shoe socks, and threepair of quilted cloth boots. Thes

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