ROUGH NOTES OP TRAVEL AND SPORT. 103 



I went oat; disappointed to find that his horns were only 25 inches 

 after all. We went up the nullah as on the 11th, and I spotted them, 

 three males, two females, about half a mile above us. They went 

 up a ravine, and we followed, but a drifting cloud covered the 

 nullah, and we took the left bank while they had gone up the right. 

 We worked up till, at 5-30 p m., Nibra saw one on the other ridge 

 far below us. He and I crossed three ravines, and quickly got to the 

 place, but the breeze (as usually at sunset) had shifted, and they 

 winded us and were 200 yards otf in the next ravine where I thought 

 I was just 20 yards from them. The sun was right in my eyes, but 

 1 hit the old fellow as we went up the opposite ridge. I had put up 

 the 200 yards' sight, and N. said I had hit him in the hind leg, so 

 I thought 1 must be low (found afterwards I had smashed his hip), 

 and put up the 250 for the left barrel. This went just over his back ; 

 'he was limping slowly along the edge of a steep sheer rock, and, 

 lowering the elevation to 200 , I fired again, and plugged him fair 

 in the middle ribs, and over he went, heels over head, right down 

 the precipice, about 800 feet from rock to rock. The core of his 

 left horn was broken, and his skull and jawbones were in fragments. 

 With the left barrel I knocked over one of the smaller ones, but 

 he only fell a few yards, picked himself up, and went out across 

 a glacier on to a bed of deep snow in which we lost sight of him. 

 (I got him when the snow melted, and found that the horns were barely 

 18 inches, so I threw them away.) These were my first Markhor, 

 but now I shall be able to judge better of the right size to shoot at, 

 and will spare the small fry. 



April 15///. — Right up the hill tops, along the very crags where 

 those six old ones had gone the other day, but we only saw the 

 surviving young male of yesterday and some female Markhor. 



The number of Lammergeyers (GypaStus barhatus) one sees is quite 

 surprising. I saw one nest, but could not get at it. Two ram 

 chikore alighted on a rock within ten yards of me, and never saw me. 

 The male bird went on bowing and waltzing and crooning to the 

 female, just like an old cock pigeon ; then he would throw his head 

 back and scream ! So he went on for quite five minutes, until a 

 Lanimergeyer sailed overhead, when the pair flew screaming aw r ay. 



April 11th. — Path up nullah, partly along river bed, partly on the 

 face of a cliff, very bad going. The way the coolies, with loads of 

 80 lbs., get up these places is quite marvellous. I find even a rifle too 

 cumbersome for some of the bits these men scramble up, loads and 



