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frantically, and pointing in the direction to their 

 right. I thought at first that this was their manner 

 of congratulating me, and that they had witnessed all 

 my proceedings, especially as I could not understand 

 a word they uttered. As they continued, however, 

 this wild mode of telegraphy, I began to think of 

 my other wounded beast, and on looking in the 

 direction they indicated, there, like a statue, stood 

 a beautiful old ram on an overhanging ledge of rock. 

 He had evidently discovered me, for he kept staring 

 intently down on the place where I stood ; then he 

 would turn his head up slowly and watch the hunters. 

 There was no possible hiding, so I simply followed 

 up the bottom of the nullah within full sight of the 

 animal, which, curiously enough, never moved an inch 

 till 1 got within 150 yards of him, and, taking a 

 steady aim, shot him through the heart. He also 

 rolled down the cliffs and stuck on a crag, from 

 which I dragged him down by his horns. I im- 

 mediately saw he was the largest of the two. My 

 first bullet had shattered his hind-quarters to pieces, 

 and he had probably been bleeding so hard that he 

 had no more strength to move. The measurements 

 of the two heads were the following : — 



