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of sport for that evening, and we returned 

 clean. 



On our arrival in camp, which had in the mean- 

 time been shifted further west, we found there the 

 hunter we had seen in the distance. He had shot 

 a sheep, and the head which they exhibited opened 

 my eyes. These sheep, if urial at all, which I 

 doubted, were at least urial of a size utterly un- 

 known before. He was evidently quite a young 

 beast, but had horns measuring thirty -four inches 

 and very heavy. Now, out of a great many urial 

 shot in the best grounds in the Himalaya, my 

 longest, and one of which I thought a lot, was 

 that of a very old ram with horns measuring 

 thirty-one inches. So I had evidently chanced on 

 something worth following up. A vista opened 

 in which, in addition to stags with antlers like 

 trees, there figured sheep of a new and remark- 

 able variety. Early morning and dewy eve 

 would henceforth be spent in looking for deer, 

 while the day would be devoted to the sheep. 

 About the former I may say here that though 

 during the time I then spent on this shooting- 

 ground I never left camp later than the first 

 glimmer of dawn, and never returned till after 

 dark, that one stag seen the first morning was the 

 only glimpse vouchsafed to me of this forest- 

 loving beast. 



