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Amid the High Hills

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Sir Hugh Fraser
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A series of illustrated essays and articles recounts field experiences of upland sport and natural history, emphasizing deer-stalking, salmon fishing, and observations of birds and raptors. Chapters blend practical guidance on stalking, shooting, and game care with accounts of hazardous or memorable days on hill and in forest, notes on wounded-deer behavior and predator methods, and discussion of loch and salmon matters. The pieces combine anecdote, natural-history reflection, and landscape description to convey seasonal life, techniques, and the close relationships between human keepers and the wild upland environment.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

* Those marked with an asterisk are in colour.

*September Snow, Loch Carron, Ross-shire.Frontispiece
By Finlay Mackinnon.
FACING PAGE
*“The joy of watching deer when they have no suspicion that they are being watched”1
By V. R. Balfour-Browne.
Golden Days4
By V. R. Balfour-Browne.
*“See! from the tops the mist is stealing”6
By Finlay Mackinnon.
*“The salmon leaped twice straight up into the air”16
By V. R. Balfour-Browne.
The Peregrine Falcon26
By V. R. Balfour-Browne.
Winter Sunshine—Wild Geese at the Foot of the Applecross Hills36
From a Photograph by The Lady Anne Murray of Loch Carron.
*The Spine-tailed Swift40
By V. R. Balfour-Browne.
*The Golden Eagle64
By V. R. Balfour-Browne.
Where the Golden Eagle reigns68
From a Photograph by Frank Wallace.
*Preparing for Battle76
By Frank Wallace.
*“Take the fifth, he’s the best”80
By V. R. Balfour-Browne.
In the Forest of Fannich82
By Finlay Mackinnon.
“He had the advantage of some inches over my little grandson, who was nearly five years old”90
From a Photograph by Mrs. Noel Wills.
*Sligachan, Isle of Skye96
By Finlay Mackinnon.
“Lying on a ridge we spied some deer”98
From a Photograph by the Author.
The Five Sisters of Kintail104
By Finlay Mackinnon.
Old Angus nearing Home110
By V. R. Balfour-Browne.
The Sanctuary, Kinlochewe Forest124
By Finlay Mackinnon.
“The trusty allies of our fathers on the hill”128
By Philip Stretton.
“I was spying for some time”134
From a Photograph by the Author.
*The Applecross Hills, and a Highland Fishing Village142
By Finlay Mackinnon.
Death of the Mallard148
By J. Wolf.
Among the Western Islands166
From a Photograph by Miss Diana Darling.
*Where Strome Castle looks over the Sea to Skye168
By Finlay Mackinnon.
*“The big stag is still there”176
By Frank Wallace.
*An Autumn Day, Loch Carron—looking West184
By Mrs. Schroder of Attadale.
Sunset on the Shores of Loch Carron192
From a Photograph by Miss Alexandra Fraser.
*On the Edge of the Deer Forest200
By Finlay Mackinnon.
In Achnashellach Forest204
By Finlay Mackinnon.
*Evening Glow, Poolewe, Ross-shire212
By Finlay Mackinnon.
*“The morning cometh”218
By Finlay Mackinnon.

Also pencil headings to each Chapter.

“THE JOY OF WATCHING DEER WHEN THEY HAVE NO SUSPICION THAT THEY ARE BEING WATCHED.”

By V. R. Balfour-Browne.