Two Trophies. 



killing. I resumed the chase in the afternoon and, thanks 

 to the tracking abilities of the Kalmuks, came up with him in 

 the forest to the west, a shot behind the shoulder bringing him 

 down. I then discovered the shot in the morning had hit him 

 through the neck, which accounted for the wobbly manner in 

 which he held his head. It was a very nice six pointer, so that 

 I was getting some enjoyable shooting. 



The ground to our right was much broken and covered with 

 bush and fallen trees. Whilst getting over these obstacles we 

 heard a buck barking, and presently sighted him going down 

 hill apparently alarmed. We dropped to earth and I then 

 crawled forward to the shelter of a friendly rock which com- 

 manded a good view of the quarry who was still making down 

 hill and slightly towards us. Presently he stopped to look 

 round, just the moment I had been waiting for, and a shot 

 behind the shoulder rolled him over without further ado. He 

 was a nice little trophy, six points, and taping over 13 inches, 

 quite a good average head. 



On the 28th I missed a buck in the morning, rather a longish 

 shot from a ridge on to a grass patch below, but still not too far 

 had I been in form. When I came in that afternoon from 

 the second part of the day's shikar I found Giyani had gone off 

 after a stray horse. I sent Numgoon to look for him and soon 

 after his departure rain set in, so I hoped both would find an 

 aul in which to pass the night, sheltered from the fury of 

 the elements. As Giyani had not appeared by dawn and Num- 

 goon came in at 4 o'clock in the morning without having 

 seen him, I took Nurah and went in search of him, sending 

 Numgoon along the high ground above the right bank of the 

 nullah. We also got on to this ground further up and I saw an 

 " illik," which came bounding out of the forest in our direction, 

 but Nurah was so excited at the sudden apparition that the 

 buck spotted us before I could get a shot, making off in a series 

 of bounds which evidenced his desire to quit such dangerous 

 precincts. 



