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without waiting to find out what had happened ; but the 

 other two, who had been lying upon the slope of the hill 

 on my side, rushed out from below, and came to a stand 

 on the hill facing me, about 200 yards off — not looking, 

 but intently listening ; they had evidently been sound 

 asleep when the crack of the rifle roused them. The 

 bullet from the second barrel went true this time, and the 

 largest ram of the two came rolling down the hill with a 

 broken back. I used the standard sight again for the 

 second shot — another instance of the difference in sighting 

 in these elevated regions. When we got up to the dead 

 animal, both the boy and myself were on the best of terms 

 with ourselves. It was my first Ovis amnion, and his too, 

 probably. The boy's excitement knew no bounds ; he was 

 quite " above himself." But when I patted him on the 

 back and put a rupee into his hand, he was calm in an 

 instant ; this meant business. It was now 3 p.m., and I 

 felt that I had done enough for one and the first day : 

 I had been tramping since five o'clock, and for a great 

 portion of the time had been under intense excitement — 

 kept up pretty well at boiling point by the too vigorous 

 sun ; so I rested until the things came up. When I 

 made up my mind to follow the game down this valley 

 I knew that I could not return to Dong-lung by evening, 

 and therefore sent the extra man who accompanied us back 

 for the small tent, bedding, and food, intending to sleep 

 that night as near the game as possible. This precaution 

 saved me the awful trudge back to camp, which tells so 

 fearfully on the returning sportsman spent with the exer- 

 tions of the day. When tlie things arrived, I went down 

 the valley and camped by a trickle of water : Paugiir-tso 

 was within sight, about two miles lower down. Camp was 

 a shorter distance beyond the border ; the men with me 

 were in consequence uneasy, fearing discovery by the trans- 



