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Saiga tartarica 345 Tame Decoys C. Whymper 351 Ovis Poli ” 363 Our Camp 367 Dead Ovis Poli 376 Cinch him up 381 Knife Fastening 388 ‘Good-bye to the Groceries’ 391 Specimens of 340, 360, 440, and 460 grain Express Bullets From a photograph. 395 Specimens of .500 and .577 bore Express Bullets 396 Specimens of .450 and .577 bore Express Bullets 397 Specimens of soft .577 Bullets 398 Specimens of 12-bore ‘Paradox’ Bullets 400 Diagram showing six shots with 10 bore and 8-bore ‘Paradox’ 400 Diagram of 8-bore ‘Paradox’ Bullet 401 Sir Samuel Baker’s strengthened Stock 406 Rifle Loops 407 ‘Shikari’ Rifle Case 408 Back Sights 408 When the Light Wanes C. Whymper. 414 Wapiti Head 419

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BIG GAME SHOOTING

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CHAPTER I
ARCTIC HUNTING

By Arnold Pike

Arctic hunting embraces an enormous field, the extent of which is not yet realised, and I should begin by remarking that my experience, as here set forth, is limited to the seas around Spitzbergen, and that I propose to confine myself to the pursuit of the walrus and the polar bear.

Although the vast herds of walrus which formerly inhabited the Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya seas have been sadly thinned by persistent—and often wasteful—hunting, first by the English and Dutch in the early part of the seventeenth century, then by the Russians, and at the present day by the Norwegians, yet enough may still be killed in a season’s hunting to satisfy most sportsmen. The fact that the expeditions after walrus and polar bear which are made to these waters are often partially, or wholly, unsuccessful is due not to the scarcity of game but to the manner in which it is sought. The sportsman usually sails in a yacht—a vessel totally unfit for the work before her—and at Tromsö or Hammerfest picks up an ice pilot, who is also supposed to show where sport is to be obtained, at a season of the year when all the best