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                         The Badminton Library

                                  OF

                          SPORTS AND PASTIMES

                               EDITED BY

                 HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT, K.G.

                    ASSISTED BY ALFRED E. T. WATSON

                          _BIG GAME SHOOTING_

                                  II.




[Illustration: HAND TO HAND WORK]




                           BIG GAME SHOOTING

                                  BY
                        CLIVE PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY

                         WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY
              LIEUT.-COLONEL R. HEBER PERCY, ARNOLD PIKE,
         MAJOR ALGERNON C. HEBER PERCY, W. A. BAILLIE-GROHMAN,
      SIR HENRY POTTINGER, BART., EARL OF KILMOREY, ABEL CHAPMAN,
               WALTER J. BUCK, AND ST. GEORGE LITTLEDALE

                            [Illustration]

                               VOL. II.

                _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHARLES WHYMPER
                         AND FROM PHOTOGRAPHS_

                                LONDON
                       LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
                                 1894




CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME


  CHAPTER                                                           PAGE

       I. ARCTIC HUNTING
            _By Arnold Pike._                                            1

      II. THE CAUCASUS
           _By Clive Phillipps-Wolley._                                 22

     III. MOUNTAIN GAME OF THE CAUCASUS
           _By Clive Phillipps-Wolley._                                 48

      IV. CAUCASIAN AUROCHS
           _By St. G. Littledale._                                      65

       V. OVIS ARGALI OF MONGOLIA
           _By St. G. Littledale._                                      73

      VI. THE CHAMOIS
           _By W. A. Baillie-Grohman._                                  77

     VII. THE STAG OF THE ALPS
           _By W. A. Baillie-Grohman._                                 112

    VIII. THE SCANDINAVIAN ELK
           _By Sir Henry Potlinger, Bart._                             123

      IX. EUROPEAN BIG GAME
           _By Major Algernon Heber Percy, and the Earl of Kilmorey._  154

       X. THE LARGE GAME OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
           _By Abel Chapman and W. J. Buck._                           174

      XI. INDIAN SHOOTING
           _By Lieut.-Col. Reginald Heber Percy._                      182

     XII. THE OVIS POLI OF THE PAMIR
           _By St. G. Littledale._                                     363

    XIII. CAMPS, TRANSPORT, ETC.
           _By Clive Phillipps-Wolley._                                377

     XIV. A FEW NOTES ON RIFLES AND AMMUNITION
           _By H. W. H._                                               394

      XV. HINTS ON TAXIDERMY, ETC.
           _By Clive Phillipps-Wolley._                                413

          A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY                                         421

  INDEX                                                                425




ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE SECOND VOLUME

(_Reproduced by Messrs. Walker & Boutall_)


                        FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

                                            ARTIST

  HAND TO HAND WORK                       _C. Whymper_   _Frontispiece_

  DEATH OF A POLAR BEAR                       ”         _to face p._ 16

  THE CORPSE ROCKS                        _C. Whymper_         ”     20

  MR. ST. G. LITTLEDALE’S CAUCASIAN }  _From a photograph_     ”     36
  BAG FOR THE SEASON OF 1887        }

  ‘STANDING LIKE STATUES’                 _C. Whymper_         ”     48

  IBEX (_Hircus ægagrus_)                     ”                ”     52

  THE SPECTRE                                 ”                ”     62

  CHAMOIS                           {_From an instantaneous_}  ”     80
                                    {_photograph_           }

  SPANISH IBEX                      {_C. W