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cramped sitting posture could not afford to throw away any 

 chances. I waited on until Nurah indicated with one of his 

 familiar grimaces that the biggest of the herd was approaching, 

 so I prepared for him, and when he showed up not more than 

 70 yards away sent liim over with a shot beliind the shoulder. 



"WE TETHERED THE PONHCS IN SOME BRUSHWOOD." 



He rolled some hundreds of feet down hill, and I quite 

 thought his horns would be smashed, but fortunately this did 

 not happen, and when we got down to him later they were intact. 

 This head measured 47^ inches, so that I had now secured several 

 good trophies. 



Just after bagging this one, another ibex appeared, and I had 

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