WILD SPORTS OF THE HIGHLANDS 



saw him tumbling and struggling downwards, as he strove 

 to cling to the projections of the rock — but in vain, as he 

 came to no stop till he reached the bottom, where we be- 

 held him, after regaining his feet for a short time, sink 

 gradually to the ground. It was impossible for us to reach 

 the place where he lay dead without going so far round 

 that the daylight would have failed us. I must own, not- 

 withstanding the reputed destructiveness of the eagle, that 

 I looked with great regret at the dead body of the noble 

 bird, and wished that I had not killed him, the more espec- 

 ially as I was obliged to leave him to rot uselessly in that 

 inaccessible place. 





