NEW MODE OF HUNTING 



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way for a long time, peeping cautiously into likely 

 glades between the trunks of tall larches, but without 

 success. We came across a few tracks of Maral 

 stags, but that was all. The wind was bitterly cold, 

 and as I was by this time thoroughly drenched, I 



SIBERIAN ROE-BUCK. 

 (Capreotus />ygargus.) 



decided to return to camp, which we reached soon 

 after midday. On the whole I found this new mode 

 of hunting most difficult and aggravating, and with 

 but slight chance in favour of the hunter. Little- 

 dale, who had gone westward, returned late in the 

 day, and reported that he had only come across three 



