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CHAPTER XXIX. 



AFTER IBEX IN JOURA. 



As there are two islands of Joura (or Gioura) on the 

 map of Greece, I had better begin by saying that I do 

 not refer to the ancient Gyaros, near Delos, but to that 

 once known as Gerontia, which hes to the extreme 

 north-east of the modern kingdom of Greece — the 

 farthest of any size in that direction. 



The reader may recollect the difficulties I had had 

 in the beginning of the year 1897 to get a permit to 

 shoot on this island at all. This pointed, in my opinion, 

 to the fact that the ibex were carefully preserved, but, 

 as will be seen hereafter, the permit was a farce. 

 Anybody and everybody shoots at Joura. The pity 

 was that I had not gone to the island before the war, 

 as since that period everybody has a Gras rifle, and all 

 game is ruthlessly destroyed ; but as to this I shall 

 have something to say in an Appendix. 



Flushed with the moderate success we had obtained 

 at Antimilo, where I had had the satisfaction of know- 

 ing that if the two bucks I had killed were not extra 

 .fine specimens, they were at any rate the largest then 

 on the island, we made our way by the Piraeus, and 

 inside the island of Euboea to Volo, and from Yolo to 

 Skopelos. It was a decidedly leisurely voyage — a day 



