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The trophies which I had secured were all fine heads, 

 with the exception of one small one which I discarded, 

 and included four heads of over 50 inches, as follows : 

 50f, 51, 55, and 57 inches; the measurements of the 

 six best heads given in the latest edition of Mr 

 Rowland Ward's ' Horn Measurements ' being 62, 60, 

 59|-, 59, 56|-, and 55 inches. 



On the 22nd, I bade farewell to my Mongol soldier, 

 who, by the way, had just concluded an agreement 

 with my Kalmuks to meet them at a spot known to 

 them in the mountains on the frontier, with 30 bricks 

 of tea, for which he was to be paid 25 roubles. By 

 thus evading the vigilance of the Russian Custom 

 oflficials at Kosh-Agach they no doubt expected to do 

 a good stroke of business, the price of this particular 

 brand of tea in Russia amounting to 1 rouble 40 kopecks 

 per brick. 



Two days later I reached Kosh-Agach, whence a 

 march of eight days brought me to the Russian 

 village of Onguidai. Here I was able to get post- 

 horses again, and reached Biisk on wheels in five days 

 more, taking steamer from here down the river Ob to 

 the Siberian railway. 



