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CHAPTER XXY. 



IBEX-STALKING IN ANTIMILO. 



The determination to revisit Antimilo, expressed at 

 the end of chapter xix., proved impossible of execution 

 in the winter which followed my first trip, but my hopes 

 were realised in the next season. Moreover, this time 

 I was fortunate enough to have a companion whose 

 initials, P. B. V., will enable big -game shooters in 

 most parts of the world to recognise him, and who, 

 three years later, abandoned a projected expedition 

 against the giant sheep of the Altai for the more 

 exciting game of war, and went out to South Africa 

 to join " Roberts' Horse." 



V. was about to proceed to India to take part in 

 the Maharajah of Kuch Behar's royal shooting party, 

 and subsequently to the Himalayas on his own ac- 

 count, and agreed to devote a month en route to the 

 game of Greece in the shape of the ibex of Antimilo 

 and Joura, and the fallow deer on the shores of the 

 Adramyttian Gulf ^ By this arrangement I had the 

 advantage of the use of his tents and camp gear, 

 which he had already despatched to Marseilles. By 

 so doing he had, to a certain extent, pledged himself 

 to the French route, and as my invariable rule in the 



1 See Appendix B. 



