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same general appearance, but are considerably smaller and 

 less shaggy, and carry thinner and shorter horns than the 

 bulls. Wild yaks generally congregate in herds, which may 

 contain any number up to considerably over a hundred, but 

 they are sometimes found singly. Their habitat is never 

 lower than 14,000 feet. 



Towards the head of the glen there were marks of these 

 wild beeves that had been there some time before, but they 

 had evidently shifted their ground. Doe antelopes or what 

 I supposed were does, for they all appeared hornless were 

 pretty numerous ; but not a good buck did we see until we 

 reached the almost level snowless summit of a very high pass 

 though it did not appear so from the great height we were 

 already at which terminated the glen. Here a fine fellow 

 suddenly showed himself, and offered such a tempting shot 

 that I could not resist the temptation to let drive at him, 

 even at the risk of disturbing any dong that might have been 

 in the vicinity. Of doing this there was, however, little fear, 

 as the wind sweeping over the pass was quite enough to pre- 

 vent a shot being heard at any distance. 



The buck moved on slowly a short way, and then lay 

 down. Giving him a wide berth for the present, with the 

 intention of looking him up on our way back, when we should 

 have a better chance of securing him, we went a consider- 

 able distance down the other side of the range, to a prominent 

 spot which commanded an extensive view of the savage 

 mountainous wilderness beyond. Even Changter, who had 

 been exploring this wild country since his youth, said he 

 knew little about the remote region across this pass. Every 

 visible atom of ground which was only here and there patched 

 with snow was carefully scrutinised through the spy-glass. 

 Still there were no dong to be seen only a couple of wild 

 horses quietly grazing on an isolated green spot beside a little 

 stream, more than a mile off and far below us ; and a fine fox 

 with a light sandy-coloured coat and a white-tipped brush. 



