THE ISLANDS OF SARDINIA AND CORSICA. 23 



"Next day at sunrise the mountain of Perdaliana 

 was ascended and carefully surveyed. During our 

 absence from the camp a small herd of about eight 

 moufflons passed within fifty yards of it, pursued by 

 dogs belonging to some hunters of Gairo, who came 

 up shortly after. The moufflons stood for a moment 

 in a cluster while Bernardo, one of the men, fired at 

 them. The following day no moufflons were seen in 

 the morning, but at mid-day, with the assistance of 

 the dogs, some five or six were dislodged from a small 

 wood in a gulley to the east of the rock of Perdaliana, 

 and, later on, three more from the Samela and Sanougi 

 woods towards the west. Next day a Mr. "Wood, a 

 mining engineer, one of the few Englishmen resident 

 in Sardinia with the exception of the officials of 

 the railway company, which is English came from 

 Lanusei with a large number of beaters and dogs, 

 and the large wood of Letini was beaten, which lies 

 between Perdaliana and the Flumendosa Eiver, the 

 guns being on the ridge above the wood. Three red 

 deer broke down hill and crossed the Flumendosa, 

 followed by all the dogs, who returned soon after, 

 excepting a terrier, who came back next day. 

 Shortly afterwards three ram moufflons came and 

 stood in the maquia, near the Earl of Mayo, only 

 the splendid curved horns being visible. He secured 

 one of the ram moufflons with a shot which passed 

 through the spine, and subsequently through one 

 of the horns of the animal, which now decorate 

 the ancestral hall at Palmerstown. The remaining 



