Hunting in the Himalaya; with Notices of Customs and Countries from the Elephant Haunts of the Dehra Doon, to the Bunchowr Tracks in Eternal Snow (1860)
Dunlop, R. H. W. · Richard Bentley (London) · leaf 152
DOON SHOOTING. 135° against the muzzle of the gun and attach the string to that. … In the Doon, as elsewhere in India, if the carcase of a deer, or any other animal, is left on the ground for an hour, it is soon visited by scores of vultures. These pnimals are con- stantly wheeling far up out of sight in the sky, and 'they have a vision so keen that one of them is quite sure, ere…
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