The Dolan Hsikang Expedition is now getting into step, the different members finding their own alloted task and settling down to their work Schafer was tremendously encouraged by his frst bag. He and his native hunter were crawling along slowly when some natural instinct told the German that big game was near, They were moving along what Known as the Kong-yn valley when the native hunter suddenly became excited and pointed to the left bank of the mountain stream, But Schafer thad already noticed the herd of takin ind his business now was to keep the) native hunter quiet.
The local hunter no doubt, thought the German was somewhat slow, bul he very soon discovered this was not Schafer was moving for his position and when it came the takin fell thick and fast. He let the takin follow] their trail for 100 yards when he brought down the leader; this caused the herd to turn round and make off in the opposite direction, when. again he brought down the leader, and this way, he dropped the leader very time till ten of the herd were rolling down the mountain side. It was a clever bit of scientific hunting which the local hunter greatly marvelled. Apparently when the herd saw their leader fall they were afraid to go any further, and in this way Schafer kept the takin running along] a line of some 100 yards.
Dolan heard the shooting down the valley and the other hunters and porters were soon on the scene. Mr. Schafer gave the porters large sheets of white paper, telling them to hold! lup the paper when they had discovered the body of a takin. Very soon the papers were seen at different points on the mountain and the! porters were dragging the takin tol "the base camp. The third day after his arrival on the border, ten takin} in half an hour, and there are only some twenty takin in the museums of the world to-day. This stroke of food. luck of good hunting _has established a record which will take some beating. The first takin was shot by an Englishman down the! Chienchang valley on the way, 'o Yunnan; the second by Ernest Schafer. the third Hugo Weigolds on the last Journey up here, and the fourth Jack Young. who is now on the border. Of course Budorces Tibetana is somewhat different from Budorcas Tazicolor which is found on the Mishmi Hills in Upper Assam. Of] the former, Tibetana, very few spectmens have been seen and shot by Europeans and.now a young German sportsman bags ten in half an hour.
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