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CHAPTER VIII. 

 Pack-ponies go astray ; replaced by Camels from the Kirghiz — Again 

 in the Happy Valley — More Stalking- — Letters at Last — Weather 

 breaks up — Kosh-Agatch Plain — Antelope — Our Bag- — Start for 

 Bashkaous Valley — Shooting Wild Fowl on the Kosh-Agatch Steppe 

 —My Wife kills a Wild Swan with the Rifle— In the Altai Woodlands 



— Pine, Larch, and Birch — After Maral and Roe-deer — Grayling 

 Fishing in the Bashkaous River — The Zaissan's Home — Kara Kodjur 

 Stream — Unsuccessful Approaches — Wild Scenery — Sorry-Kol Lake 

 — Tracks of Maral and Moose — Littledale shoots a good Roe-buck 



— Our Camp at Yulientash — Absence of Deer — September 6th — 

 General Retreat to Ongoudai — Meeting with Major Wissmann — 

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