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nala with steep sides well concealed from view. After the 

 tent was pitched, I took a walk down the ravine and 

 spotted a wolf, who had just topped the ridge to 

 my right. I ran back for the rifle, but he was two 

 hundred yards off before I could fire, and I missed him. 

 He looked small, and was yellowish-white in colour, some- 

 what similar to the antelope; I could distinctly see his 

 white paws (Canis paUi2Jes). In the afternoon we went 

 along the base of the range towards the head of the 

 valley, and after a rough three hours' walk I sat down, 

 and Paljour went on to explore. He had not gone two 

 hundred yards when he beckoned to me, having seen five 

 nyan quite close ; they were, he said, the very five of the 

 day before, over which I had so blundered in the Chang- 

 liing valley. They had bolted in this direction, and 

 Paljour had promised me another shot in a couple of days ; 

 he was as good as his word. "We stalked for about five 

 hundred yards, and came on the animals at exactly the 

 proper point ; they were about one hundred yards below us. 

 I had a capital rest on a rock, and the biggest ram was 

 again the nearest, grazing with his right shoulder towards 

 me. I did not aim under his tail this time, but straight 

 for the shoulder, and made a most satisfactory shot. The 

 ovis ran down the hillside for about twenty yards and 

 rolled over. The others fled across the stream and valley 

 to the opposite range, and I had no chance of another shot. 

 Paljour said we should meet them again in a couple of 

 days. The nyan was a large animal, the biggest of the lot 

 — an ugly beast, with long lanky legs, a big stomach, and 

 the hair coming off his skin in patches ; but his head was 

 a noble trophy. The horns measured forty and thirty -nine 

 inches round the curve and seventeen inches round the 

 base. This was the best head I secured. When Paljour 

 came in, he showed me little splashes of lead sticking to 



