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ourselves and lunched, afterwards riding on to the 

 similar barrack on the Zelenagora, or Green Mountain. 

 Next day we went to the Radomisla plateau. As 

 we skirted a lake below it we saw a herd of chamois 

 feeding on the cliffs just above, so at the end of our 

 ride, finding the place was handy to our bivouac, I 

 took my rifle and went to look after them. An easy 

 stalk brought me close up, but I could find nothing 

 but does and youngsters, and consequently went back 

 to dinner without firing a shot. The night was wet, 

 but we managed a comfortable bivouac, and next 

 morning had a couple of drives in the hope of a bear, 

 whose fresh traces I had seen the night before. 

 Nothing was forthcoming, however, but roe, chamois, 

 hazel-grouse, and capercalzie, which were allowed to 

 pass unfired at. Then we rode down to the town 

 of Jelec, where I dropped one forester, and on the 

 next day to Kalinovik, where the other also left me, 

 to go on alone to Bjelemic, where I slept. The next 

 day I lunched at Glavaticevo, where I had been some 

 months in camp a couple of years before, and reached 

 the villa at Borke Lake in the afternoon. Its owner, 

 a nobleman high up in the Bosnian service, was cele- 

 brating the anniversary of the battle of Lissa, in 

 which he had played no unimportant part, and we 

 drank to the health of the gallant Tegethoif and his 

 brave tars. 



The reserve round Borke, which I did not then 

 examine, as I already knew it, is the first which the 

 Bosnian Government has thrown into the market at 

 the modest rent of Fl. 500 (£42). It is of large 

 extent, well stocked with chamois, roe, and small 

 game, and should yield a bear or two annually. At 

 this very time damage to cattle by bears had been 



