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clouds, and there was some eighteen inches of fresh 

 snow on the ground, so we decided to leave, as a 

 further fall would have made our road very bad. 

 Anyway I had had almost enough of roe shooting ; 

 as though it is pretty sport, it is of no absorbing 

 interest, and the weather was by now too cold for 

 crawling about in the snow to be enjoyable. A 

 long march down took us clear of the snow, and 

 next day, December 5th, after another ten miles 

 or so, made rather unpleasant by a gale of wind, 

 we reached the foot of the Jilgalong valley, where 

 the other two were now camped. 



They had shot a lot of roe deer, also two pigs, 

 which the Kalmaks ate, much to the disgust of our 

 Mahommedan followers. 



