AFTER WILD SHEEP 



IN THE 



ALTAI AND MONGOLIA 



CHAPTER I. 



From London to Barnaoul via St. Petersburg and Moscow — Meeting 

 with Littledale — Nijni- Novgorod — Down the Volga ; up the Kama 

 to Taguil — Three days at Taguil — Our luggage — Cook — Special Car — 

 Journey to Krivostchekovo (Ob River) — Governor of Tomsk —General 

 Holdyrefif, head of the Altai district — Ispravnik — Village of Niko- 

 laievsk — Up the Ob to Barnaoul. 



It was in the spring- of 1897 that, strolling down 

 Piccadilly, my wife and I, on passing the well-known 

 window of Mr. Rowland Ward, were struck by 

 the unusual size and massiveness of some heads 

 of wild sheep which were there on view. On 

 making inquiry we were told that they were heads 

 of Ovis amnion, lately secured by Major Cumberland 

 on the Russo-Chinese slopes of the Altai Mountains. 

 There were six or seven of them, and I think I 

 never was more impressed by any trophies I had 



