SPORT IN THE TEKKES : IBEX 101 



my lot might give me time to get up to them, but 

 it was not to be ; they saw the others move, or the 

 Kalmak, probably both, and were off too. As 

 soon as they passed a ridge I ran in, thinking that 

 possibly they might slow down on the other side ; 

 but no, the Kalmak was still full in view, and when 

 I reached the top of the rising ground they were 

 well on their way up another hill, and all chance 

 was gone. 



Words fail to express one's feelings on occasions 

 like this ; being of that sanguine temperament which 

 alone induces men to undergo the toil of hill shikar, 

 I had already regarded one, and with any luck both, 

 of the big bucks as my own. It was indeed a 

 bitter moment, and in a very unamiable frame of 

 mind I started down the hill. The Kalmak, having 

 done all the harm possible, had now retreated ; he 

 was as blind as a bat, but would hardly have failed 

 to see all those ibex when they moved, so I suppose 

 he realised that he was not likely to be blessed. 

 When we got down to him, tired and disappointed, 

 he severely tried the scanty remains of temper left 

 to me by swearing that he had never moved, a 

 statement which so exasperated me that I with 

 difficulty refrained from kicking him ; later on he 

 confessed his fault, and said that we had been gone 

 so long that he came to look for us, in spite of all 

 orders to the contrary. 



Sadly we returned to camp, where Durji, on being 



