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THRILLING ADVENTURES. 



THE GOLDEN EAGLE. 



distance below the snow, the carcass of a wild sheep, as fresh 

 as it was on the day it was carried away. Many a haunch 

 of good mutton have I obtained in this way. 



The Himalaya golden eagle is a very carrion crow, never 

 destroying its own game, but feeding on any dead carcass it 

 may find. Many an eagle have I shot feeding on the carcass 

 of an unfortunate hill bullock, which, either through stupidity 

 or fright, had tumbled over a precipice ; and never, during 

 the many years I shot over all parts of these hills, do I know 



