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AFTER WILD SHEEP IN THE ALTAI 



with a stream trickling down the grassy slope. Here 

 about 1,50. Maral, both stags and hinds, were con- 

 fined, enabling us to contemplate them at our leisure. 

 It was a sight worth seeing; these fine deer fed 

 quietly near us, and, knowing their master's call, 

 would gather round him and take bread and oats 



DEKK PARK AT SHEBALINA. 



from his hands. Some of the stags carried good 

 horns — in velvet at that time of year. The hinds 

 appeared tamer than the stags, which (as the 

 merchant told us) seemed to become wilder as the 

 time approached for the painful operation of cutting 

 the horns while in the velvet, generally towards the 

 middle of June. Some of the animals had been 





