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stones, he got up right in front of me about a 

 hundred yards off, but my fortune was bad, and I 

 missed him clean as he went away and disappeared 

 over the next spur. " I am afraid he will now 

 give us a long chase," said Surju, " for he seemed to 

 go very strong, and wounded burhel can go a long 

 way." However, we hardened our hearts and went 

 on tracking, for we still had a drop or two of 

 blood to guide us. Twelve o'clock, one, and two ; 

 still we went on, hungry and thirsty. At last, on 

 looking over a rocky moraine below us, Surju 

 pointed. He had made him out at last. There 

 he lay behind a rock below. I went back a little 

 way to get out of sight, then worked up to him 

 from below. I crawled up to within fifty yards and 

 put a bullet into him as he lay. We had him ! 

 He proved to have a fine head with fifteen rings on 

 his horns. We were both dead-beat when we got 

 back to camp in the evening, having been without 

 food or drink all day, for I was so keen to start 

 that morning that I had forgotten to put anything 

 in my pocket. I stopped in this camp until I had 

 got what I wanted, then crossed the Niti Pass back 

 to Gumsali, which is a frontier village of Kumaon. 



THE WILD SHEEP OF SIBERIA (Ovis Ammon) 

 Kotchgar, male ; Arkar, female (Kalmuki) 



This sheep, reckoned by naturalists the head of the 

 tribe, inhabits the treeless mountain regions of Siberia 

 and Mongolia, from the Altai Mountains to the Baikal. 



