THE RARE SNOW LEOPARD.
India has produced some of tho finest big-gaui.o huntors in tho world. First they Mil dcor, thon tigers, and niter Hint they climb into tho hills after the mountain shocp, which nro tho most difficult of all their kind to Follow and kill. But (hero is ono ambition beyond tho mountain shce]>. That is tho snow leopard. This beautiful creature, white jis tho snows it lives among, is rarely found below ft height of 11,000 feci, and is even there extremely rare. It is both wild and savage, and the natives have a superstitious fear of its white coat and deep green eyes. Tho man who succeeds in killing a snow leopard steps into the very first rank of big-gamo hunters.—"The Argonaut."
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1419, 20 April 1912, Page 4
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126THE RARE SNOW LEOPARD. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1419, 20 April 1912, Page 4
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