I Encounter Wild Horses. 



I followed up the ram in question, but the ground was very 

 low, only averaging some 50 to 70 feet above the general level, 

 and intersected by innumerable little valleys and ravines, so 

 that locating the quarry was extremely difacult work. 



That the sheep exist there is no doubt, although their 

 numbers must be quite small. The ram sighted was with two 

 ewes, and his horns would have measured about 35 inches, 



THEIR ASTONISHMENT AT MY KIT WAS GREAT. 



the tips coming close in at the lower jaw and then turning shghtly 

 outwards. The thickness at the base and along the horns did 

 not appear large, and the bulk of the ram was much below that 

 of the sheep I had shot in the Thian Shan, averaging perhaps 

 36 inches at the shoulder. 



I was away the next morning before 8 o'clock, being 

 mounted as the ground admitted of the use of ponies. More- 

 over the locality I was to try that day lay some distance to the 

 north-east, hard by the shores of the Ebi Nor. 



The route lay through an undulating country covered with 

 gravel and withered grass, and from the summit of some high 



^22, Y2 



