[11] Lawn-tennis shoes, with stout ribbed soles, are capital makeshifts for stalking purposes.
[12] Under contracts for elk hunting on private ground it is generally arranged that the shooter shall keep the head, the hide if he pleases, and one haunch, the rest of the meat going to the proprietor or farmer of the land, by whom it is salted or smoked for winter consumption. But on State lands, the rights of which are periodically sold by auction, the shooter retains the whole carcase.
[13] Knowledge of elk spoor, to be of any practical value, can only be learnt by experience: I have not therefore attempted any description of it.
[14] To explain how such a tract, entirely mountainous, may be conveniently hunted, I may mention that there are eight specially built huts and four small farmhouses which serve as quarters.
[15] Unless the Caucasian zubr, of which Mr. St. George Littledale had recently killed a specimen, be (as the Caucasians maintain) identical with the Lithuanian beast.—C. P.-W.
[16] A tiger of this length would only weigh about 300 lbs. not cleaned.
[17] Tigers have been shot in the Caucasus west of the Caspian.
[18] Note to Appendix C, Sterndale’s Mammalia.
[19] Sterndale’s Mammalia.
[20] Measured between uprights and not following curves of body